Blue skies 1 e o ensino da língua inglesa: uma análise crítica decolonial do livro didático

Abstract

This undergraduate thesis presents reflections and proposals on the use of textbooks in English teaching, which commonly show linguistic and cultural representations that are centered on hegemonic countries. Starting from autoethnographic considerations and advancing to qualitative research, this work is divided into four parts that include: a brief summary of English language teaching (EL T); my own path as an apprentice and teacher , besides my concerns with the representative choices of textbooks for EL T ; the methods used in this research; and a decolonial and critical analysis on chapter six of the coursebook Blue Skies 1, which was a teaching resource, in 2022, when I worked as a professor em formação (PF), or trainee teacher , at the Núcleo Permanente de Extensão em Letras (NUPEL), including strategies to adapt this material. The aim, therefore, is to investigate pluricultural and plurilingual elements of representation throughout chapter six of Blue Skies 1 through the assumptions of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) (Fairclough, 2001) and Maldonado-T orres' decolonial theory (2018). Regarding the reflections carried out, it is noted that the unit under analysis leaves gaps in terms of pluricultural and linguistic representation, perpetuating practices that reject countries from the Sul Global (Global South) and, at the same time, enhance the utopic representative of a “native” speaker - a white, heteronormative, belonging to the dominant group- not even covering critical aspects for language education (Menezes de Souza; Hashiguti, 2022) of English.