Um olhar sobre o ensino de língua estrangeira para crianças e o seu planejamento

Abstract

The teaching of English for children has been widely explored in Language courses and schools. However, teachers have found challenges like: the universities do not prepare foreign Language teachers for this public; the lack of scientific research about this theme and courseware; the lack of legal guidelines for the teaching of foreign Languages in the early grades of the Elementary School, making the teacher s work an experimental practice. The methodology of the research was documental and the corpora for the analysis were a planning implemented in an English teaching project for non-readers children between 4 and 6 years old; and also a logbook where we described how the planning was carried out. One of the most impressive results was the little use of the planning in the classes and the including of our students in the processes of the construction of the learning. During the research, we realised the importance of the playfulness for the development of the kids and the flexibility of the planning. Our main objective is to identify and discuss the problems and successes in this practice, in order to improve the foreign Language teaching for children. We wish our study may benefit anyone interested in this subject, and stimulate the dialogue and more research