Uma investigação sobre um possível desinteresse e desmotivação dos alunos pela língua inglesa oral na sala de aula.

Abstract

This paper entitled "An Investigation of Possible Students’ Disinterest and Demotivation for Oral English Language in the Classroom" show the reasons that the students of Colégio Estadual Guilherme Dourado feel discouraged in class of English Language. In addition, it seeks to show strategies that can help teachers motivate their students. Concern over this issue arose during the participant’s practicum classes at this school in 2014, where it was noticed that the students refused to use oral language in the classroom. The methodology of this research is qualitative and ethnographic. Where the researcher stayed a period of time with the participants and also applied a questionnaire at the end of this period. In the beginning it was believed that most students felt discouraged, but at the end of the research it was found that it was not the majority, because thirty-one students were questioned and a portion of eleven students of the first year of high school cited above said that they were discouraged.