Educação e linguagem desde a enunciação oral do professor de língua inglesa : autopercepção e percepção de alunos

Abstract

The purposes of this investigation were: (a) to verify how effective was students’ understanding of a teacher’s speech considering the B2 English proficiency level (according to the classification suggested in the Common European Framework document) and (b) to identify teachers’ and students’ perceptions on how a teacher’s classroom speech should be delivered so as to help B2 students improve their listening comprehension skills in an effective way. Based on these data, teachers’ and students’ perceptions were compared. Furthermore, a contrastive analysis between their beliefs and the didactics purpose of the teacher’s speech was also carried out. The general hypothesis that drove this study is that most teachers and most B2 proficiency level students believe that a teacher’s speech should be delivered so as to facilitate students’ understanding and that this helps students improve their listening comprehension skills. The data were collected through (1) a listening comprehension questionnaire given to students right after they listened to the recording of a teacher’s speech and (2) survey questionnaires that investigated the subjects’ perceptions regarding different features of teachers’ speech such as speech rate, use of unfamiliar words, expressions and syntactic structures, use of mother tongue and intonation. The data was analyzed from a Vygotskian perspective, from Ausubel’s meaningful learning concept and from Benveniste’s and Bakhtin’s views of language. As the data analysis showed, most students and teachers believe that the teacher’s speech should be delivered in such a way as to facilitate students’ understanding. It also revealed that these beliefs were reflected in the teacher’s classroom practice. Moreover, the results suggested that most teachers do not seem to correlate the way a teacher’s speech is delivered to the possibility of this helping improve students’ listening comprehension skill.