Autoavaliação: uma proposta para a aprendizagem de língua inglesa no ensino médio

Abstract

This work is the result of a study about the use of self-assessment in English-language classes from two perspectives: as a learning strategy (O’MALLEY & CHAMOT, 1990) of foreign languages and as a manner to promote the student’s participation in the teaching-learning process (ALVES, 2004; SOARES, 2007) toward the construction of their learning. For this purpose, we adopted the concepts of self-assessment as a tool for the self-regulation of knowledge (BANDURA, 1977; BLANCHE & MERINO, 1989; DUKE & SANCHEZ, 1994; SOARES, 2006) and for the promotion of learning. (ELLIS, 2001; BLACK; WILLIAN, 2006; FERREIRA, 2007; PAIVA, 2012). The research was developed with twenty-six students from a public school in the city of Natal, capital of Rio Grande do Norte, and used the Action research (ELLIOT, 2005 ) as the chosen investigative method, under the Qualitative Pedagogical research approach (LANKSHEAR, KNOBEL, 2008; SILVERMAN, 2010). The main objective of the study was to implement the self-assessment practice in the English language subject of the school where the research has been conducted and, therefore, proceed with the analysis of the effects that such implementation brings about as a strategy to promote the learning of English within and outside the school. It was also within our scope to contribute to the area of Language studies by means of the elaboration of a prototype of selfassessment which can be adaptable to the real situations faced in the Brazilian public schools. The achieved results confirm our hypothesis, which states that the self-assessment is a practical and effective strategy that helps high school students develop their English language learning and insert themselves in the teaching-learning-evaluation process in an autonomous and conscious way. The outcomes emphasize that the self-assessment can provide indicatives of the presence or absence of learning of the language studied; it can be the promoter of the student participation in the learning process; and it also can function as a tool for managing the learners’ individual learning actions.