MULTILITERACY PRACTICES IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING-LEARNING FOR CHILDREN
Multiliteracies. English Language. English Languege for Children. Elementary School I
This research the literacy practices provided by English language activities for children in school contexts are investigated. It aims to analyze whether the teaching-learning of this language, in the light of multiliteracies practices, can contribute to the critical-reflexive citizen formation of 4th grade students of a public school in the city of Sinop, state of Mato Grosso, Brazil. The theoretical support is based on authors who address the theme, such as, Freire (1982; 1989), Kleiman (2005; 2007), Monte Mór (2014; 2017; 2018), Rojo (2009; 2019) and Soares (1998; 2003; 2004; 2015; 2018), to mention a few authors. This is a qualitative-descriptive research (BAUER; GASKELL, 2002), (BODGAN; BIKLEN, 1982), based on the principles of action research (GIL, 2002; 2008). The instruments of data generation consist of a set of teaching materials used in the classes, observations, audio recordings, field diary of the teacher-researcher, prior and final evaluations to the development of the teaching proposal. For data analysis, we sought the presence of information that favored the discussion about practices that correlated the content studied in the classroom with the students' social context. The order of the content developed in class followed the students' questions, so the material was produced according to the questions that arose in each class. According to the previous analysis of the data, the material produced and applied by the teacher-researcher allowed us to identify in the students the presence of critical-reflexive thinking during the discussions raised in the classroom in English language classes, during the development of the activities provided by the movie The Chicken Little as central focus and other activities. So far, the results have evidenced not only the literacies they presented in the debates, but also the correlation between the didactic material and everyday life. That way, the present research suggests the development of proposals for teaching and learning English language for children that consider the students' multi, whether built in their social context or in the school environment, so that in the classroom, the English language contents may have more meaning and instigate the students to actively relate the school knowledge to their lives.