Mediação na sala de aula de Língua Inglesa: A perspectiva vygotskiana

Abstract

This study’s main objective is to understand how the concept of interposition in the learning process of the students is perceived by themselves. Due to it, a questionnaire was built and applied in a group of English students of an language course, in the city of João Pessoa. The answers to this questionnaire were analyzed based on vygotsky’s theories, specially the interposition and its consequences in the teaching of the English language. Moreover, it’s extremely important to say that the main objective of this study is not to judge positively or negatively the activities or learning/method used by the teacher, but to analyze the influence of interposition inside the teaching/learning process. As a result, it can be said that there is a interposition “deficit” in the class of the students who answered the questionnaire. So, it can be said that there is interposition but yet incipient. Lastly, it’s important to understand that the Vygotsky’s perspective works according social interactionism, and for that reason it should also include the English teaching. In contrast, this concept still needs to be studied, planed and directed in order to offer an acquisition of a new language through the shared knowledge between teachers and students.