The text book and the english teaching as a second language in Brazil

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International Journal of Development Research

The text book and the english teaching as a second language in Brazil

Abstract: 

This text has as its goal analyzing the cultural aspects in a series of four textbooks. These books have been used in Brazil since 2004. It is believed, in this research, that the textbooks have been a source of great importance to the studies and to the research in the recent field of History of School Subjects. It is possible to obtain, through the content of a textbook, activities and exercises proposed, information that can be used to determine the context of its usage as well as its role in the teaching processes. The analysis of the textbook was the methodological tool used. Based on it, the language teaching methods were presented and the book organization was analyzed. The analytical categories of Kazumi Munakata (1997), André Chervel (1990), Roger Chartier (2002), Norbert Elias (1994) were used as theoretical basis to the development this research. 

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