Students of PEJA in: English language talking and its influence in daily situations

• Main Authors: Míriam Martinez Guerra, Maria Rosa Rodrigues Martins de Camargo
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho 2012-01-01
• Series: Educação: Teoria e Prática
• Subjects: English language in Brazil. Literacy. Young and adults education.
• Online Access: http://www.periodicos.rc.biblioteca.unesp.br/index.php/educacao/article/view/3936/4338

This paper was developed through literacy events about English language, understood as a social practice of writing and reading. The subjects involved in this research were women, between forty and seventy years old, students of a Young and Adult Education Project (PEJA) that occurs at UNESP/Rio Claro, who are looking forward to conclude basic school. We intended to see in their speeches reflections about the English language presence in our society and how they deal with this foreign language. Thus, we optimize this contact exposing those women to daily situations where English language was present. To foment dialog and ideas discussions, we brought to the classes common elements, materials such as street advertisements photos with words in English. We noticed that most students recognize the constant English presence and, even though they never had formal English education, they were able to establish relations between the uses of English words in everyday Portuguese at most different spheres of life. And, at many times, foreign word comprehension is related to English words use instead of a native one leading to an English naturalization process in the Brazilians speeches world.