Um breve olhar sobre a presença, importância e metodologia nos centros binacionais: no âmbito do english access microscholarship program_

Abstract

This paper aims to examine the importance of Brazil-United States Binational Centers within the History of Language Teaching in Brazil. For this, we conducted a survey in Binational Centers (BNC) present in our country through the application of a questionnaire with subjective questions, which characterizes our research as descriptive/qualitative/quantitative. By reading and analyzing the data, it was possible to know how and when the first institutions were founded and, finally, the impact generated by the presence of these centers and the methodology used by them. There are several contributions that the BNC have given not only to the teaching and learning of the English language in Brazil, among which we can mention the exchange and cultural promotion between Brazil and the United States. The objective of this research is to briefly analyze, based on the result of our sample, the methodology applied in the classroom in relation to the English Language Teaching at 04 (Four) Binational Centers located in Brazil: Associação Brasil – America (ABA) Global Education (Recife PE); Associação Alumni (São Paulo - SP), Casa Thomas Jefferson (Brasília - DF) and Cultural Institute Brazil - United States (ICBEU) – (Manaus - MA) under the International English Access Microscholarship Program). For this, we based on our research on the authors Crystal (2003), Silva (2013), Nogueira (2010), among others.