O ensino de língua estrangeira nos primeiros ciclos do ensino fundamental : superando as desigualdades sociais

Abstract

This paperwork proposes to expand the discussions raised in the action plan developed in the course of Human Rights Education Perfecting, which presented the teaching of a foreign language as an element capable of minimizing social inequalities. In a globalized world where the relations, either personals or professionals, no longer find barriers after the inventing of internet and the appearing of new technologies, to learn a new language took root as an essential intellectual capital to attend the new market demands. Not to have the access to a foreign language and limit itself to the exercise of grammar- translation contradicts the educational objectives professed in Brazil’s Federal Constitution of 1988: promoting the full development, citizenship and qualifying for work. First, the plenitude of the human development based in the conception of human dignity can not be reached, once that it is not given the necessary tools to attend the market demands. Second, for not making possible the critic reflection of oneself and his/her part in the world. To understand if the process of inequalities legitimation happens in the school, Escola Estadual São Cristóvão, and contribute to its reversion are the specifics objectives of this intervention plan.