O papel da língua materna na sala de aula de línguas estrageiras

Abstract

This research paper aims to identify the circumstances which L1 appears in a language classroom, list all the occurrences in the classroom, identify when teachers would use L1 in their classrooms, analyze in which circumstances the book allows and even promotes L1 use, and organize the data raised in order to help foreign language teachers make right decisions in their classrooms. Therefore, it describes the circumstances in which both languages interact leading to a typological classification of its presence. First of all, it presents theories, approaches and methods from the classic era until present trends discussing the role and the presence of the mother tongue in the Foreign Language Teaching. Second, it shows the methodology used to gather the data and brings a presentation of the significant data collected. Fourth, we discuss the data presenting a typological classification of it. Finally, we review and evaluate everything we did in this research and present our conclusions.