De método a pós-método: uma análise da concepção de método em institutos privados de idiomas

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Redondo, Diego Moreno
• Orientador(a): Celani, Maria Antonieta Alba
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Linguística Aplicada e Estudos da Linguagem
• Departamento: Lingüística
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Método; Pós-método; Ensino-aprendizagem de línguas
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Method; Postmethod; Language learning and teaching
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LINGUISTICA::LINGUISTICA APLICADA
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/13730

Facing a new socio-historical-cultural context of language teaching, which is configured by the rapid growth in the number of language institutes that offer English courses throughout the Brazil, this work presents, as the centerpiece, the method conception analysis of five Teacher Coordinators of English courses, in five private language institutes of a city in São Paulo State. Based on theories about method and postmethod already established by Anthony (1963) and Kumaravadivelu (2006), this study examines the method conception of these participants, since, in the context of the language institutes, these professionals represent the institution s ideology in which they work and, therefore, are responsible for conducting training courses for all teachers in order to prepare these professionals for teach classes based on the method used by institute. Starting from method conception of the participants selected for this research, it is possible to investigate to which the terms approach, method and technique are used as synonymous or in a different mean as established by Anthony (1963). By this same line of investigation, the research brings to light the approach and the method most used by private language institutes to teach a specific foreign language, since one of the great attractions used in advertisements of these schools is related to the method used in teaching and learning. For this, the research seeks theoretical support, especially in the work of Anthony (1963) and Kumaravadivelu (2006), as well as dialogue with theories about language teaching and learning, the concept of method and postmethod of writers on the subject on the agenda, such as Brown (1987), Richards & Rodgers (1982, 2001), Celani (2009, 2010), Almeida Filho (2013), Nunan (1995, 1997) and Prabhu (1990). Besides the theorists who cover the topic about method, postmethod and foreign language teaching and learning, it is worth mentioning that, according to Stake (1998), this work uses the instrumental and collective case study as a research strategy, as well as it analyzes the data by content analysis bias according to Bardin (2011). The results revealed that there is still a great difficulty to conceptualize the method, the approach and the technique, in this way appear other terms in a distorted form, to designate the function of method as, for example: methodology, procedures and resources. Therefore, it is concluded that these terms are often mistakenly used by Teachers Coordinators in private language institutes. Furthermore, the way in which the teaching is planned and executed in these contexts is far from the principles brought by the Kumaravadivelu s proposal (2006) called postmethod condition