LANGUAGE AND CULTURE IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASSROOM: WHAT MONICA’S GANG COMICS CAN TEACH US

Autores

  • Carla Janaina Figueiredo Universidade Federal de Goiás
  • Fernanda Rosa Rodrigues Centro de Línguas da UFG

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Interculturality. Monica’s Gang comics. English language learning process.

Resumo

This study aims at investigating the relation between language and culture in Monica’s Gang comics in the classroom of English as a foreign language. Another important objective was to verify if the students of a public school in the suburbs of Goiânia could develop an intercultural competence through the reading of Monica’s Gang comics in English. This research is characterized as a case study (LUDKE; ANDRÉ, 1986; MOREIRA; CALLEFE, 2006) and is based on the theories about interculturality and the process of intercultural communication in the foreign language classroom (DAMEN, 1987; KRAMSCH, 2001a; FIGUEREDO, 2007). The data discussed were obtained through activities done in the classroom and interviews. The results reveal that the English version of Monica’s Gang undergoes some linguistic and cultural changes to be meaningful to representatives of the English language and its cultures. Also, the findings point out that the learners under investigation need more significant knowledge about English as a language-culture as well as about their own cultures involved in the dialogue with the English language learning process.  

Biografia do Autor

  • Carla Janaina Figueiredo, Universidade Federal de Goiás
    Doutora em Letras e Linguística pela Universidade Federal de Goiás. Professora Adjunto 2 do Departamento de Línguas e Literaturas Estrangeiras da Faculdade de Letras da UFG.
  • Fernanda Rosa Rodrigues, Centro de Línguas da UFG
    Licenciada em Letras Inglês pela UFG. Professora de língua inglesa do Centro de Línguas da Universidade Federal de Goiás.

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2014-09-18

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