O teatro como estímulo à aprendizagem de língua inglesa: a experiência em uma escola pública

Abstract

The DRAMA CLUB Project of Colégio de Aplicação da UFRGS consists of elaborating a theater presentation in English based on long-duration plays adapted to that specific group. This action research aims at investigating in which way the process of colectively organising a theater presentation in a foreign language stimulates its learning by the participant students. Thus, regulation and self-regulation occurances, both in the teacher-student and peer interaction, were observed. Another hipothesis is about the role of such Project in the creation of a community of learners. The theoretical approach of this research was Lev Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory and other studies in the area of Applied Linguistics, as well as Project Pedagogy, motivation, autonomy, Comunity of Learners, Humanistic Teaching and Drama in Foreign Language Learning. For this study, the students' interactions were recorded in video, both those occured in rehearsals and presentations; semi-structured interviews with some of the students were also used. The data analysis suggests that the theatrical activity in a foreign language may allow the occurance of regulation and self-regulation events in an ambience friendlier to a more contextualized learning and to the creation of a community of learners