REFLECTIONS ON FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING AND CULTURE IN PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION MEDIATED BY PROJECT METHODOLOGY

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.929212210012

• Palavras-chave: Teaching. Spanish. Project. Methodology. Interculturality.

• Keywords: Teaching. Spanish. Project. Methodology. Interculturality.

• Abstract:

  This work aims to report pedagogical experiences about the teaching and learning of the Spanish language made possible by the project methodology. The focus is on valuing research, encouraging the acquisition of linguistic, cultural and technological knowledge. The IFAC extension project in the Peruvian Amazon: linguistic and cultural interaction had as protagonists of the actions students from the Federal Institute of Acre – IFAC, Campus Rio Branco, of the Initial and Continuing Training Course (FIC) modality. The research method used was action research, of a qualitative and bibliographic nature, with a theoretical basis in language studies (Bakhtin/Voloshinov, 1995), as well as in the perspective of interculturality and motivation approached by Kraviski and Bergmann (2006). From the information collected by the students through interviews and communicative dialogues, a tourist guide and a blog were created about the history and culture of the city of Puerto Maldonado, in Peru. Various bibliographic sources were used for writing the texts, such as books, magazines, newspapers, etc. As positive results, it was found that students showed greater skills in listening comprehension, writing and oral communication in Spanish, valuing linguistic and cultural diversity. As a reflection, it is worth mentioning that the students learned not only systematic content, but also to value the cultural diversity of the other, recognizing cultural and historical values ​​lived in daily practice outside the classroom, developing autonomy in the construction of scientific knowledge.

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