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Teaching. Learning. English language. Youth and Adult Education. Role-play.
This dissertation was anchored in the theoretical paradigms of Applied Linguistics and aims
to investigate how the use of role-play may favor the teaching of English in the Youth and
Adult Education. This proposal intended to engage students in a different dynamics of purely
expository classes. It is an academic work that has as theoretical foundation authors such as
Paulo Freire (2007), Lev Vygotsky 1998), Stephen Krashen (1985), Gillian Ladousse (1987),
Nogueira e Nodal ( 2017), among others. According to these theorists, the reflection on the
learning process encourages us to develop critical thinking in order to propose changes to this
process, pointing ways to a more meaningful learning. This ethnographic study, conducted
with 52 students from Vera Lux Sate School, aimed to investigate through role-play what
were the students’ perceptions regarding their communicative linguistic development in
English, and how it favors inclusion, integration and their autonomy. The relevance of this
work lies in the fact that it can contribute to improving the quality of English teaching and
learning in public schools, specifically in Youth and Adult Education.