As características do pós-método evidenciadas (ou não) nas unidades didáticas “What’s he wearing” e “World and the media”

Abstract

The present study aims at analyzing two English Textbooks Collection for the Elementary School I and II. I intend to verify if the activities proposed in the teaching units studied comply with the official documents, presents some items of criteria for evaluating educational materials and the Post-Method’s features. The importance of the research is the fact that it can serve as a parameter for the studies about criteria for evaluation and choice of teaching materials and intend to bring more knowledge of conceptions concerning the Post-Method. The theoretical framework in which this investigation is based was, among other concepts, Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais – Língua estrangeira (Brasil, 1998), criteria for the evaluation of teaching materials (Ramos,1999/ 2009), children and teaching English (Moon, 2000), Methods (Leffa, 1988,1999) e Post–method (Kumaravadivelu, 1994, 2001, 2003, 2006). Methodologically, this study was based on the interpretative qualitative paradigm, because there will be no enumeration, presence of measuring or quantifying vision of reality. Reflection on this research data may lead to better comprehension about the importance of consistent choice of teaching materials and knowledge of the methodologies applied in the classroom nowadays. The analysis and discussion of the results indicated that in the teaching units there are Post-Method’s features, they comply with official documents and present some items of criteria for evaluating educational materials. Moreover, they have proved to be efficient and have proposed to develop the linguistics skills