A abordagem comunicativa na leitura e compreensão de textos em inglês

Abstract

This research, based on theoretical principles of Applied Linguistics and the communicative approach, discusses the presence of different approaches and methodologies of English language teaching in regular schools, especially in EREM Dom João da Mata Amaral school, located in Garanhuns - Pernambuco, and the use of the communicative approach in reading and comprehension of texts, focusing on texts used in the National High School Exam (ENEM). In order to make this happen, a reading and textual comprehension project was carried out, during the 2017 school year with thirty-four (34) students from the third year “A” of the aforementioned high school in which reading and comprehension exercises were conducted through communicative approach principles with the purpose of making students comfortable enough to use the English language in different situations, but mainly in exams such as ENEM and other college admittance examinations. In addition, in order to place theory and practice into comparison, a research was conducted in the documents governing Brazilian education so as to understand how they seem to indicate that English language teaching should take place at regular schools and to compare the theory with the reality actually observed at these institutions, in order to be able to perceive the difficulties faced by English language teachers from such, which seemed to obstruct the use of other approaches which not the traditional one in class.