Competência lexical na proficiência do professor de inglês como língua estrangeira: uma análise do teste oral do epple

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Silva Neto, Teucle Maurílio [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Linguistica aplicada; Língua inglesa; Professores de ingles; Competência e desempenho; Avaliação de proficiência; Proficiência oral
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/127552; http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/cathedra/14-09-2015/000846858.pdf

Considering the literature published on assessment of oral proficiency (e.g. BAFFI-BONVINO, 2007; BORGES DE ALMEIDA, 2009; CONSOLO, 2007) of English teachers in training, there seems to be the need to redefine the profile of such teachers in Brazilian contexts. Thus, this work aims at analyzing and characterizing the lexical competence of pre-service teachers of a public university in São Paulo state. These teachers have undergone a trial version of the EPPLE (Proficiency Examination for Teachers of Foreign Languages). This study seeks, in light of the theoretical subsidies that support the research of the characteristics and quality of speech in English, to analyze linguistic aspects of the speech of candidates, such as the relevance and type of vocabulary used in the target language by interacting, the suitability of the lexical items to the task, negotiations of meaning that may arise from the difference between lexical competence of the candidates, lexical propriety (appropriateness of lexical item to the context and the coefficient of frequency of the item according to the subject matter). The methodology of this research is considered hybrid since it adopts procedures for quantitative and qualitative data analysis. The results obtained by comparing the data described above show that the students' performance, in general, does not vary significantly in the test versions analyzed (online and paper-based). These results point to the need for revision of the descriptors for the vocabulary produced in the oral test, the creation of an analytical scale that considers the differences between proficiency bands based not only on the frequency factor - but appropriateness to the context - that could best describe what should be achieved in the proficiency bands