As narrativas das experiências do ensino de Inglês por professores de Parintins

Abstract

The current article was based on an extension project in Continuing Education, supported by PROEX, and conducted with English teachers from Parintins. Our objective was to bring teachers together to assist them in the development of their methodological competence and language abilities, consequently, aiming at the advance of English teaching in Parintins public schools. The methodology was based in a qualitative research about the teachers, involving interviews with them. Acting as intermediary of dialogues with school teachers, we have counted with the help of our University students who are daily conducting activities in several public schools. As a result, we present in this article the opinions given by school teachers who talk about English teaching, including teaching techniques, informal learning and future plans for professional improvement. Such opinions are related to recurrent issues in the field of foreign language studies, approached in texts such as the ones by Almeida Filho (2000), Gardner and Lambert (1972), Leffa (2008) and Schumann (1978). Our project is also related to studies such as the ones by Barcelos (2004), Paiva (2006) and Xavier (2014), who deal with teacher training and their life stories.