Dificuldades na aprendizagem da língua inglesa no ensino fundamental: uma revisão de literatura

Abstract

The English language, nowadays, has acquired enormous importance in the world, as it is one of the main foreign languages most used by world society. In this sense, teachers and students face several difficulties in the process of teaching and learning the English language in elementary school, due to this problem, the study aimed to identify the main difficulties in learning English language teaching in elementary school. This is a literature review study carried out in October 2022 through the SciELO and Google Scholar libraries, based on previously established descriptors and eligibility criteria, based on the combination of descriptors, after applying the inclusion criteria and exclusion, elimination of repeated articles between the bases, title and abstract reading, a total of 05 articles were obtained for the composition of the study sample. After a thorough analysis of the sample, it was possible to identify factors that hinder the learning of the English language in elementary school, such as an inadequate environment, limited didactic material, teacher improvement, number of weekly classes, reading and text interpretation, and lack of motivation. It is concluded that there are still several barriers that interfere with the teaching of the English language and that identifying these barriers is essential to outline effective interventions that make it possible to transform this reality, improving the quality of teaching.