Strategies for contextualized teaching of English: analysis of the internship experience in the public school

Abstract

This work aims to identify how teaching promoted through the students’ sociocultural context contributes to the English language learning. Thus, we explored discussions about language teaching in context, describing through activities strategies used to achieve the proposed objective, evaluating students' participation, motivation and performance. For theoretical discussions, we anchored ourselves in the ideas of Freire (2011), Kumaravadivelu (2003) and other authors who discuss the contextualized teaching of English and their strategies for doing so. As a way to achieve our objectives, we used as corpus lesson plans and activities carried out during the period of the Supervised Internship II subject matter, in a state public school, with a 6th year class. Methodologically, the research is exploratory, interpretive, qualitative and a case study (GONSALVES, 2003). Through data analysis, we found greater interest and engagement among students in learning the proposed content in English.