O uso de atividades lúdicas como ferramenta facilitadora no ensino de língua inglesa: um estudo através da aplicação de um jogo em uma escola de Itambé/PE

Abstract

When the teacher is going to prepare the class, he evaluates several factors beyond the subject that he is going to propose to define the best way to provide learning for his students. Part of this process is featured by the existence or not of motivation and interesting from the students to it. When the teacher motivates, he stimulates interaction, he can explore better and achieve better results. Nowadays education set new possibilities to teachers like the utilization of playful activities to build a meaningful learning. This article analyses games as a facilitator of this teaching-learning process, in addition to discussing them as a motivation tool for students, observing the application of a game in a public school in the city of Itambé-PE. The research is qualitative and, regarding the procedures, it is an action research, based on direct observation of the application of the game and the analysis of the responses obtained through a questionnaire designed for students and teachers. The research was applied in two classrooms of the second grade of high school, with the total of 41 students and concluded that the games have a positive influence on the scholar environment, as a facilitator of the process, providing the teacher a better enjoyment in relation to meaningful learning in class, in addition they can help the teacher methodology. This study, because is an action research, go deeper in this theme investigation, through the eyes of the researcher, with no generalizations, but can help as reference to future researches about this theme and give additional reference to it.