The metalanguage and the grammatical accuracy in the oral proficiency of two teachers of English as a foreign language.

• Grant number: 09/04261-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: October 01, 2009
• End date: February 28, 2011
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Linguistics - Applied Linguistics
• Principal Investigator: Douglas Altamiro Consolo
• Grantee: Aline Mara Fernandes
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas (IBILCE). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de São José do Rio Preto. São José do Rio Preto , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Giving the today's need for competent and well-prepared professionals for the teaching of foreign languages for communication purposes and considering the various researches in the field of Applied Linguistics dedicated to the competency of language teachers or language teachers to be, this project aims at presenting a comparative study of the kind of language produced by English teachers to be, it means, senior students, according to the TEPOLI, an English oral proficiency test taken by senior students from Letras course, and the language produced in classroom by these teachers after graduating. The focus of the research is on the metalanguage, once proficiency in the target language is expected from this professional.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

FERNANDES, Aline Mara. A Metalinguagem e a precisão na proficiência oral de duas professoras de inglês como língua estrangeira. 2011. Master's Dissertation - Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Instituto de Biociências Letras e Ciências Exatas. São José do Rio Preto São José do Rio Preto.