A Língua Inglesa na educação de jovens e adultos: desafios e possibilidades

Abstract

Youth and Adult Education consists of a teaching modality that has particular characteristics when compared to classes considered regular since it consists of different age groups. In view of this, this research aims at identifying the profiles of students of Youth and Adult Education and the main challenges they encounter in learning the English Language. For this, a bibliographical research was carried out in order to analyze different studies that demonstrate an overview of the profiles of YAE (EJA, in Portuguese) students and their difficulties when studying the English language. Through this analysis, it was noticed that the students of YAE (EJA) present themselves with great heterogeneity, since the classes are composed of people from different social classes and very different age groups. The presence of adult people in classes they are enrolled and the long period they stayed outside the school environment increase their lack of knowledge and devaluation in relation to the English language, which requires greater skills of English language teachers to promote their motivation and a viable alternative is the promotion of the English language with elements that are part of the daily life of students of Youth and Adult Education.