O lúdico como motivação no ensino de língua inglesa nas séries iniciais do ensino fundamental público: uma revisão de literatura

Abstract

The theme of this article is the implementation of ludic activities for teaching English as a way of motivating students, especially those from public schools, who often only have access to other languages at school. The research problem is: how can playful activities contribute to the motivation of public-school students to learn English in the early grades of elementary school? The objective is to discuss, through a bibliographical review, the insertion of ludic activities in English classes in the initial grades of Elementary School, making a connection with another important category in FL teaching: motivation. As for the methodology, it is a narrative bibliographical review, with a qualitative approach, which was materialized through a search in the Catalog of Theses and Dissertations of the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), and in the database of the Biblioteca Digital Brasileira de Teses e Dissertações (BDTD), in a time period between 2009 and 2022. Three studies were then analyzed and the results confirm the pedagogical character of playfulness for teaching English in the mentioned teaching stage. However, they also indicate the necessity of good teacher preparation, both in terms of fluency in the language and in the proper planning of activities, so that the playful activities do not take up time, purely and simply. They must not see as a leisure activity, but with the purpose of teaching and learning.