A produção escrita em língua inglesa na perspectiva de alunos do ensino médio

Abstract

The present work refers to a study about the following subject "The written production in English Language in High School from the students’ perspective", whose research was carried out with high school classes of the State System of Education in the municipality of Pato Branco/PR. It aims to analyze the problematic related to the textual production in the English Language, observing its importance for the students and whether the ability to write texts is developed in the classes of English in High School. In a first moment, the importance of the practice of writing and textual production in the classes of English Language is discussed. The main theoretical support to be mentioned is Didiê Ana Ceni Denardi (2009; 2017)’s studies, as well as the contribution of other authors such as Charles Higounet (2003) and Joaquim Dolz (2010), among others. In a second moment, it is presented the methodological procedures used to carry out this research, from the elaboration of the questionnaire, the application of the questionnaire to the interpretation and transposition of the collected data to graphs. After this step, in a third point, the collected data about the teaching-learning of writing in the classes of English Language were analyzed, identifying the students’ considerations and conceptions in relation to the writing of the English Language. The results point to the fact that most of the participant students are interested in learning English by taking into account the importance of these kinds of knowledge to their personal and professional lives, as well as affirm they want to write texts in English, although they have great difficulties to do that.