Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-21T14:54:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Braga, Lucimar Araujo.pdf: 1194079 bytes, checksum: 9a85030303c4cd975e09bbedb341adcf (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-08-29 / Reflecting the possibility of talking about beliefs involving teacher´s behavior in class instigated us to try to understand how these attitudes appear in language classrooms. Barcelos (2004, 2006, 2010, 2011), considers that beliefs have great power upon our behavior and actions, existing an inter-relation among beliefs, attitudes and identity construction. Understanding teacher´s identity as an ongoing process (TADEU DA SILVA,2004) that shapes itself to the reality inside the classroom and knowing that beliefs and attitudes can be modified, as well as language policies are inter-related in this process all the time this research, with a qualitative nature, aims at observing,identifying and analyzing beliefs and attitudes of a teacher from a public school located in Paraná. Our studies comprehended Spanish teaching/learning process, as a case study. Based on Picanço (2003), we gathered historical facts related to language teaching/learning process analyzed through the language policy in Brazil, specifically in Paraná. In the theoretical revision, we present some positions about studies related to beliefs and attitudes according to Le Bon (2002); Barcelos (2004, 2006, 2010, 2011);Vieira-Abrahão (2004, 2010, 2011) e Silva (2010, 2011) among others. Some questions guided this work: “ which beliefs the teacher shows in her practice?” “Are there any difference between teacher´s beliefs and acts and the language policy concerned to language teaching?” “What relations do these beliefs establish with the teacher´s actions?”. In general terms, the beliefs presented in Spanish language classes are similar to some beliefs that have already appeared in other research works, once the participant showed beliefs with these thematic: a) beliefs about the learning process of FL by FL;b) Beliefs about how to deal with an error; c) Beliefs about the lack of interest in learning FL; d) Beliefs about the importance of learning S/FL; e) Beliefs about student´s autonomy in learning language; f) Beliefs about the role of the vocabulary in S/FL classes; g) Beliefs about the ludic role in the S/FL classes; h) Beliefs about the necessity of persuade students to learn; i) Beliefs about the “facility” in learning S/FL; and j) Beliefs about the group work activities role in class. / A possibilidade de propor reflexões que envolvam crenças e atitudes de professores em atuação nos instigou a querer compreender como estas aparecem nas salas de aula de línguas. Barcelos (2004, 2006, 2010, 2011) considera que as crenças exercem impacto em nosso comportamento e em nossas ações, e que existe uma inter-relação entre crenças, atitudes e construção de identidade. Compreendendo a identidade do professor como um processo contínuo (TADEU DA SILVA, 2004) que a cada dia se molda à realidade existente nas salas de aula e partindo do pressuposto de que as crenças e atitudes podem ser modificadas, bem como as políticas linguísticas estão interrelacionadas nesse processo o tempo todo esta pesquisa, de natureza qualitativa, teve como objetivo observar, identificar e analisar crenças e atitudes de uma professora de de línguas de uma escola pública no estado do Paraná. Amparados em Picanço (2003), realizamos um apanhado de fatos históricos relacionados ao percurso do ensino e da aprendizagem de línguas, pelo viés da política linguística no Estado brasileiro e mais especificamente no Paraná. Na revisão teórica, apresentamos posicionamentos sobre os estudos a respeito de crenças e atitudes segundo Le Bon (2002); Barcelos (2004, 2006,2010, 2011); Vieira-Abrahão (2004, 2010, 2011) e Silva (2010, 2011), entre outros. As questões que nortearam esta dissertação foram as seguintes: “Que crenças a professora manifesta em sua prática? Que relação essas crenças estabelecem com as ações da professora? Há convergência entre as crenças e ações da professora e as políticas linguísticas voltadas à educação de línguas?”. Em termos gerais, as crenças apresentadas nas aulas de língua espanhola se assemelham a algumas crenças levantadas e apresentadas em outras pesquisas da mesma natureza, uma vez que a participante manifestou crenças relativas às seguintes temáticas: a) Crenças sobre o aprendizado da LE pela LE; b) Crenças sobre o tratamento do erro; c) Crenças sobre a falta de interesse em aprender LE; d) Crenças sobre a importância de aprender E/LE; e) Crenças sobre a autonomia do aluno para aprender; f) Crenças sobre o papel do vocabulário nas aulas de E/LE; g) Crenças sobre o papel do lúdico nas aulas de E/LE; h) Crenças sobre a necessidade de convencer os alunos a aprender; i) Crenças sobre a “facilidade” em aprender E/LE; e j) Crenças sobre o papel da realização de trabalhos em grupo.

Dans cette recherche-action nous avons mis en place un dispositif pédagogique visant à faire développer la compétence stratégique orale d’un groupe d’étudiants plurilingues apprenant l’espagnol au Campus Européen Franco-Allemand de Sciences Po Paris, situé à Nancy (France). Nous avons enseigné des stratégies de communication orale spécifiques dans le but d’étudier les effets de cet enseignement à partir, d’un côté, de l’utilisation des stratégies par les étudiants, avant et après notre intervention et, d’un autre côté, de leurs opinions sur le dispositif pédagogique. Plusieurs instruments de recherche ont été utilisés dans le but de recueillir un nombre important de données qui ont permis de répondre aux quatre questions de recherche : (1) Quelles sont les stratégies de communication orale utilisées par les étudiants en début et en fin de recherche ? (2) L’enseignement de stratégies de communication orale spécifiques fait-il augmenter l’utilisation de ces stratégies ? (3) Quel apport fait l’entretien rétrospectif à la recherche sur l’enseignement des stratégies de communication orale ? (4) Quel bilan font les étudiants de l’enseignement/apprentissage des stratégies de communication orale spécifiques en cours ? Les analyses ont été faites sur quatre tâches langagières monologales avant et après notre intervention pédagogique. Les résultats montrent que les étudiants ont utilisé davantage les stratégies enseignées et diminué l’utilisation des stratégies qui n’ont pas été enseignées. On observe également que le niveau de langue s’est amélioré. En ce qui concerne l’apport de l’entretien rétrospectif, cette technique nous a donné accès à des données « invisibles » qui nous ont aidé à comprendre une partie des processus mentaux qui ont amené les étudiants à produire différentes stratégies de communication orale. Enfin, les apprenants ont dit qu’ils ont apprécié et tiré profit de cette expérience pédagogique. / In this action research we have designed a pedagogical program aimed at developing the strategic competence of a group of multilingual students learning Spanish at the European Franco-German Campus of Sciences Po Paris in Nancy (France). We taught specific oral communication strategies in order to study the effects of this learning experience based, on the one hand, on students’ use of strategies before and after our intervention and, on the other hand, on their opinions and attitudes towards the learning of strategies in the classroom. We used several research instruments to collect a significant amount of data that allowed us to answer our four research questions: (1) What are the oral communication strategies used by the students at the beginning and end of the research? (2) Does the teaching of specific oral communication strategies raise the use of these strategies? (3) What impact do retrospective interviews have on our research? (4) What are the students’ attitudes towards the teaching of specific oral communication strategies? The data analyzed was collected from four monological language tasks before and after our intervention. Results show that the use of taught strategies increased whereas the use of non-taught strategies decreased. It was also observed that students’ language proficiency improved. Regarding the contribution of the retrospective interviews to our research, this technique helped us to access “invisible” data that allowed us to understand some of the mental processes that led learners to produce a range of communication strategies. Finally, students stated that they enjoyed and learned from this learning experience. / En esta investigación-acción, hemos creado un dispositivo pedagógico destinado a desarrollar la competencia estratégica oral de un grupo de estudiantes multilingües que aprenden español en el Campus Europeo Franco-Alemán de Sciences Po Paris, ubicado en Nancy (Francia). Hemos enseñado estrategias de comunicación oral específicas para estudiar los efectos de esta enseñanza a partir, de un lado, del uso de estrategias por parte de los estudiantes, antes y después de nuestra intervención y, de otro lado, de sus opiniones sobre el dispositivo pedagógico. Se utilizaron varios instrumentos de investigación para recoger una gran cantidad de datos a fin de responder a las cuatro preguntas de investigación: (1) ¿Cuáles son las estrategias de comunicación oral utilizadas por los estudiantes al principio y al final de la investigación? (2) ¿La enseñanza de estrategias específicas de comunicación oral hace aumentar el uso de estas estrategias? (3) ¿Qué aporta la entrevista retrospectiva a la investigación sobre la enseñanza de estrategias de comunicación oral? (4) ¿Qué balance hacen los estudiantes de la enseñanza/aprendizaje en clase de estrategias de comunicación oral específicas? Los análisis se realizaron en cuatro tareas orales (monólogos) antes y después de nuestra intervención pedagógica. Los resultados muestran que los estudiantes usaron más las estrategias enseñadas y disminuyeron el uso de estrategias que no fueron enseñadas. También observamos que el nivel de lengua mejoró. Con respecto al aporte de la entrevista retrospectiva, esta técnica nos dio acceso a datos “invisibles” que nos ayudaron a comprender algunos de los procesos mentales que llevaron a los estudiantes a producir diferentes estrategias de comunicación oral. Finalmente, los estudiantes dijeron haber disfrutado y sacado provecho de esta experiencia pedagógica.

Cette mémoire a pour objectif de mettre en évidence le délaissement dont a souffert et souffre encore dans l’actualité l’enseignement de la prononciation dans les cours d’espagnol comme langue étrangère (ELE), réaffirmer son importance et défendre la nécessité de son intégration dans les salles de classe. C’est un fait qu’avec l’actuelle approche communicative et « par devoirs », les étudiants acquièrent des connaissances supérieures en langue écrite et des résultats peu satisfaisants dans la prononciation. D’autre part, les enseignants ne comptent pas sur des méthodes d’intégration de la prononciation de ces approches, et la carence de matériels se fait plus qu’évidente. Les conceptions curriculaires actuelles n’ont pas intégré de forme naturelle l’enseignement de la prononciation dans ses exposés méthodologiques. La sélection et analyse de certains des manuels d’enseignement d’ELE, avec ce dont on travaille actuellement dans la province du Québec, confirme ces carences. Dans la dernière partie du travail on présente une sélection d’exercices que l’on considère utiles pour l’enseignement et le développement de la prononciation, incluant les éléments suprasegmentaires, d’une façon ludique, dans un contexte réel et communicatif et de manière intégrée. Une didactique de l’enseignement qui prête attention au système formel de la langue, la grammaire et le lexique, peut aussi contempler l’enseignement de la prononciation depuis la même perspective. L’important c’est qu’elle soit intégrée comme une phase supplémentaire du processus d’apprentissage, et cesse d’être une matière à repasser dans les curriculums. / This memory aims to highlight the renunciation that suffered, and still do nowadays, the teaching of the pronunciation in the Spanish courses as foreign language (SFL), to reaffirm its importance and to defend the need for its integration in the classrooms. It is a fact that with the current communicative approach and with the different duties, the students acquire higher knowledge in written language but do not have very satisfactory results in their pronunciation. In addition, the teachers don’t count on the integration of pronunciation methods in their approaches, and the deficiency of this material is more than obvious. The current curricular designs did not integrate a natural form of pronunciation teaching in its methodological talks. The selection and analyzes of some IT teaching handbooks, that are currently use in the province of Quebec, confirms these deficiencies. In the last part of this work, we present a selection of exercises that we consider useful for the teaching and the development of pronunciation, including the elements supra segmentary in a real and communicative context and in an integrated way. Didactic of the teaching that pays attention to the formal language system, grammar and the lexicon, can also contemplate pronunciation teaching by using the same prospect. Important it is that this perspective should be integrated like an additional phase of the training process, and stop to be a matter to be passed by in the curriculums.

El presente trabajo se enfoca en el papel que juega la motivación para el desarrollo de la CL en español como lengua extranjera. El objetivo principal del presente trabajo es explorar cómo los diferentes componentes de un curso de lectura literaria afectan la motivación para desarrollar la CL. Para ello, se hizo un estudio de caso de dos estudiantes suecos de español como lengua extranjera en una escuela secundaria situada en Sollentuna, Suecia. La investigación se basó en los portafolios de los estudiantes, así como cuestionarios y entrevistas semi-estructuradas realizadas con los mismos participantes. En los análisis de los datos se aplicó una combinación del método cualitativo, interpretativo y el cuantitativo para tratar de entender mejor y explicar los conceptos en cuestión desde el punto de vista de la totalidad del contexto de aprendizaje. Los resultados del estudio sugieren que el desarrollo de la CL está en correlación con la motivación resultativa e intrínseca, mientras que la predominante orientación motivacional del alumno no tenía un papel significativo para los resultados de aprendizaje en nuestros participantes. Por otra parte, tales elementos del curso como la posibilidad de elegir la tarea o el material, el uso de textos multimodales, la integración de las destrezas y una continua  retroalimentación tuvieron un efecto positivo en la motivación para desarrollar la CL. Los resultados del presente estudio pueden contribuir a una mejor comprensión de lo que crea la motivación, y como tal, servir como base para sugerencias para la enseñanza de literatura en L2. En las conclusiones se marcan posibles líneas de investigación futuras. / The present research paper focuses on the role of motivation of the L2 learners for the development of literary competence (LC). The overall aim of this investigation is to explore how different components of a literary reading course can influence the students´ motivation to develop the LC. The present paper is a case study of two Swedish students of Spanish as a foreign language in a secondary school situated in Sollentuna, Sweden. The investigation uses a combination of qualitative, interpretive and quantitative methods and attempts to understand the concepts under analysis within the learning context in its entirety. The materials to be analysed are the student reader’s portfolios, as well as questionnaires and semi-structured interviews carried out with the same participants. The results of the study suggest that the development of the LC is in correlation with the resultative and the intrinsic types of motivation, whereas the predominant motivational orientation of the learner was not found to play a significant role for the learning results of the participants. On the other hand, the motivation to develop the LC was positively affected by such course elements as a possibility to select a task or material, the use of multi-modal texts, integration of language skills and a regular individual feedback. The findings of this study add to the understanding of what creates the learner’s motivation, and also may serve as a base for suggestions for a competence-based literature teaching in a foreign language classroom. In the conclusions of this dissertation, possible directions for future research are outlined.

This study investigated the effects of processing instruction (PI) on the acquisition of the subjunctive in adjectival clauses by 92 intermediate-level distance learners of Spanish. PI is a novel instructional technique that is based on VanPatten's principles of input processing (1993, 1996, 2002, 2004), and it has three key components: (a) an explicit explanation of grammar that is not paradigmatic, (b) information on processing strategies, and (c) structured input tasks and activities. Structured input activities were isolated and combined with computerized visual input enhancement (VIE) in an attempt to increase the salience of targeted grammatical forms for web based delivery. VIE was operationalized as word animation of subjunctive forms through flash programming language. An experiment comparing four experimental groups with traditional instruction indicates that for interpretation and production tasks, there were no significant differences between PI and traditional instruction. However, learners who received PI combined with VIE outperformed learners who received structured input activities without VIE for interpretation tasks. In addition, the present study examined the effects of PI when learners encountered targeted forms that were embedded in an authentic input passage that was received following the experimental exposure. Thus far, studies in the PI strand have only examined how learners interact with structured, or manipulated, input. The results of the present study indicate that participants who received PI in combination with VIE noticed targeted forms in subsequent authentic input with metalinguistic awareness, and they demonstrated a significantly higher level of awareness than participants who received traditional instruction or structured input activities. Further, learners who received PI, with or without VIE, were better processors of targeted forms that were embedded in subsequent authentic input than learners who received structured input activities without VIE.

Cette mémoire a pour objectif de mettre en évidence le délaissement dont a souffert et souffre encore dans l’actualité l’enseignement de la prononciation dans les cours d’espagnol comme langue étrangère (ELE), réaffirmer son importance et défendre la nécessité de son intégration dans les salles de classe. C’est un fait qu’avec l’actuelle approche communicative et « par devoirs », les étudiants acquièrent des connaissances supérieures en langue écrite et des résultats peu satisfaisants dans la prononciation. D’autre part, les enseignants ne comptent pas sur des méthodes d’intégration de la prononciation de ces approches, et la carence de matériels se fait plus qu’évidente. Les conceptions curriculaires actuelles n’ont pas intégré de forme naturelle l’enseignement de la prononciation dans ses exposés méthodologiques. La sélection et analyse de certains des manuels d’enseignement d’ELE, avec ce dont on travaille actuellement dans la province du Québec, confirme ces carences. Dans la dernière partie du travail on présente une sélection d’exercices que l’on considère utiles pour l’enseignement et le développement de la prononciation, incluant les éléments suprasegmentaires, d’une façon ludique, dans un contexte réel et communicatif et de manière intégrée. Une didactique de l’enseignement qui prête attention au système formel de la langue, la grammaire et le lexique, peut aussi contempler l’enseignement de la prononciation depuis la même perspective. L’important c’est qu’elle soit intégrée comme une phase supplémentaire du processus d’apprentissage, et cesse d’être une matière à repasser dans les curriculums. / This memory aims to highlight the renunciation that suffered, and still do nowadays, the teaching of the pronunciation in the Spanish courses as foreign language (SFL), to reaffirm its importance and to defend the need for its integration in the classrooms. It is a fact that with the current communicative approach and with the different duties, the students acquire higher knowledge in written language but do not have very satisfactory results in their pronunciation. In addition, the teachers don’t count on the integration of pronunciation methods in their approaches, and the deficiency of this material is more than obvious. The current curricular designs did not integrate a natural form of pronunciation teaching in its methodological talks. The selection and analyzes of some IT teaching handbooks, that are currently use in the province of Quebec, confirms these deficiencies. In the last part of this work, we present a selection of exercises that we consider useful for the teaching and the development of pronunciation, including the elements supra segmentary in a real and communicative context and in an integrated way. Didactic of the teaching that pays attention to the formal language system, grammar and the lexicon, can also contemplate pronunciation teaching by using the same prospect. Important it is that this perspective should be integrated like an additional phase of the training process, and stop to be a matter to be passed by in the curriculums.

El presente estudio trata sobre el aprendizaje de vocabulario de español como lengua extranjera (ELE) en la escuela sueca e investiga si el uso de las aplicaciones didácticas, para los teléfonos inteligentes, que sirven para aprender vocabulario podría ser un apoyo al aprendizaje de nuevas palabras para alumnos en el paso 1, tanto en la educación secundaria como en el bachillerato. También investiga en qué medida los profesores de ELE utilizan las aplicaciones didácticas de vocabulario para que los alumnos puedan aprender nuevas palabras. Para hacer el estudio se ha realizado dos pruebas de vocabulario en cuatros clases del paso 1 en escuelas suecas en las cuales la mitad aprendió con apoyo de una aplicación didáctica mientras que la otra mitad aprendió con la estrategia tradicional, o sea, con listas de vocabulario. Además, se ha entrevistado a tres profesoras suecas de ELE sobre su uso de aplicaciones didácticas en su enseñanza. Los resultados muestran que los alumnos que utilizaron la aplicación didáctica para aprender vocabulario recordaban mejor las palabras que los alumnos que las aprendieron con la estrategia tradicional. Sin embargo, las tres profesoras informantes en la investigación nunca usan aplicaciones didácticas en su enseñanza ya que les falta experiencia del entorno digital. El análisis indica que, aunque el aprendizaje con apoyo de aplicaciones didácticas es efectivo para aprender vocabulario y hay investigadores que lo avalan y recomiendan a los profesores que utilicen aplicaciones para teléfonos inteligentes, los profesores no las utilizan debido a que tienen poco conocimiento sobre recursos técnicos. Así, la conclusión es que aprender vocabulario con aplicaciones didácticas se muestra más efectivo que aprender con la estrategia tradicional, y que los profesores suecos necesitan formación en el entorno digital para que puedan utilizar aplicaciones móviles en su enseñanza. / The present study deals with vocabulary learning of Spanish as a foreign language and investigates if the use of didactic smartphone applications focused on vocabulary learning could help the learning of new words in Spanish for students at level 1, both in secondary schools and in upper secondary schools. The study also investigates to what extent the teachers of Spanish as a foreign language use didactic vocabulary applications in order for the students to learn new words. To conduct the study two vocabulary tests have been made in four classes at level 1 in Swedish schools. Half the students learnt the vocabulary with the use of a didactic application, while the other half learnt it by using the traditional strategy with lists of words. Conversations were also held with three Swedish teachers in Spanish as a foreign language about their use of didactic applications in their teaching. The results show that the students that used the didactic application to learn the vocabulary remembered the words better than the students that learnt the vocabulary by using the traditional strategy. Nevertheless, the three teachers in the investigation never use didactic applications in their teaching since they lack experience of technical tools. The analysis indicates that even though learning with the use of didactic applications is good for vocabulary learning and that investigators recommend teachers to use mobile applications in their teaching, the teachers do not do it because of their little knowledge about technical resources. Hence, the conclusion is that learning vocabulary with didactic applications is more successful than learning vocabulary by using the traditional strategy, but also that Swedish teachers in Spanish as a foreign language need practice in the technical environment so that they can use mobile applications in their teaching.

This quantitative study that is based on a collection of 151 questionnaires focuses on the use of different resources in relation to the teaching and learning of Spanish as a Foreign Language in three different upper secondary schools and one secondary school in the city of Karlskrona, Blekinge, Sweden. The aim is to get a clearer view on students’ and teachers’ perceptions on the following resources: textbook, PowerPoint, music, video, film, articles, theatre or fiction. We want to investigate whether the 147 selected pupils and their four teachers believe that these recourses would be beneficial or not in relation to the following abilities: listening- and reading comprehension, oral- and writing expression since all pupils have different learning styles. The purpose is also to investigate the perception of the students and teachers on the subject of motivation and grades and whether or not those mentioned recourses increase their motivation and grades. From here, we would like to gain a better understanding on those means and if they should remain in its current state of use or not.           To be able to accomplish the aim of this study, we have chosen to base the investigation, besides from the questionnaires, the theoretical framework such as Neuro-linguistic programming created by Bandler and Grinder, which is based on the idea that all pupils are different and assimilate knowledge in different ways. We will also give an overview on the different resources selected.           As a conclusion, the results showed that the textbook, which we refer to as a traditional resource in this study, is more preferable than the remaining ones in the context of writing expression, reading comprehension and to obtain better grades according to the students’ and the teachers’ perceptions. The students also believe that this traditional resource is more beneficial in relation to the oral expression while the teachers think that theatre and film are the most advantageous ones concerning this skill. In relation to the listening comprehension, the students believe that film is the most preferable resource while the teachers sense that video and music are more favourable. Finally, the representatives of this investigation sense that a few of the modern resources are more beneficial than the traditional.

Ce travail se propose de démontrer la pertinence de l’utilisation du roman La Cité des Bêtes (Isabel Allende, 2002) comme recours pédagogique dans l’enseignement de l’espagnol langue étrangère (ELE) au niveau intermédiaire (B2) et dans un contexte scolaire multiculturel. Dans ce cadre, l’enseignement d’une langue étrangère vise à l’acquisition linguistique et à l’exploration d’une culture différente afin de favoriser la découverte des valeurs de l’autre et son intégration critique, attitude indispensable en vue du développement identitaire de l’individu au sein de sociétés exposées de l’intérieur et de l’extérieur au contact entre cultures. Le roman sélectionné facilite l’accès à des thématiques interdisciplinaires au sein des programmes collégiaux du Québec et encourage une attitude d’ouverture par rapport à la découverte d’autres cultures et valeurs, dans une perspective de disponibilité au questionnement des certitudes culturelles de l’étudiant, conformément aux positions des études interculturelles contemporaines. L’appartenance de l’œuvre au courant littéraire du Réalisme magique permet aussi d’introduire l’exploration de thématiques culturelles spécifiques au monde hispanique. Après un survol de la place de l’interculturalité et de l’interdisciplinarité dans l’enseignement d’ELE, le mémoire analyse la contribution spécifique du roman sélectionné à ces dimensions, pour ensuite procéder à la présentation d’exercices orientés à la pratique et la consolidation de la connaissance grammaticale et du vocabulaire, et au développement d’une sensibilité interculturelle dans les étudiants, à travers des activités individuelles et de groupe élaborées à partir des perspectives du texte. / This research aims at demonstrating the pertinence of the utilization of the novel The City of the Beasts (Isabel Allende, 2002) as a tool for teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language (ELE) at an intermediate level (B2) and in a multicultural context. Within this frame, the teaching of a second language pursues linguistic acquisition and encourages the exploration of a different culture in order to foster the discovery of the values of the other and its critical integration. This attitude shows to be indispensable for the development of the identity of the individual within societies growingly exposed from inside and outside to interaction between cultures. The selected novel allows access to interdisciplinary connections within Quebec’s College programs and promotes an attitude of openness toward the discovery of other cultures and values, requiring availability to question the student’s own cultural presuppositions, according to the tenets of contemporary intercultural studies. The novel belongs to the literary movement of Magical Realism, which helps introduce the students to the exploration of specifically Hispanic cultural themes. After a revision of the place of interculturalism and interdisciplinarity in the teaching of ELE, the dissertation analyses the specific contribution of the selected novel to these dimensions, in order to present exercises oriented toward the practice and the consolidation of grammatical and lexical knowledge, and toward the development of an intercultural sensibility in the students, providing individual and group activities built from the perspectives that emerge from the text. / Este trabajo se propone demostrar la pertinencia del uso de la novela La Ciudad de las Bestias (Isabel Allende, 2002) como útil didáctico en la enseñanza del español lengua extranjera (ELE) de nivel intermedio (B2) en un contexto escolar multicultural. En este marco, la enseñanza de una lengua extranjera aspira a la adquisición lingüística y cuida la exploración de una cultura diferente con vistas al descubrimiento de los valores del otro y a su integración crítica, actitud indispensable para el desarrollo identitario del individuo en sociedades expuestas al contacto entre culturas desde el interior y el exterior. La novela seleccionada facilita el acceso a temáticas interdisciplinarias dentro de los currículos colegiales de Quebec y anima a una actitud de apertura hacia el descubrimiento de otras culturas y valores, en una perspectiva de disponibilidad al cuestionamiento de las certitudes culturales del aprendiente, según los planteamientos de los estudios interculturales contemporáneos. La pertenencia de la obra a la corriente literaria del Realismo mágico permite también la exploración introductoria de temáticas culturales específicas del mundo hispano. Después de revisar el lugar de la interculturalidad e interdisciplinariedad en la enseñanza de ELE, la memoria analiza el aporte específico de la novela a estas dimensiones, para luego proceder a la presentación de ejercicios orientados hacia la práctica y el refuerzo del conocimiento gramatical y léxico, y hacia el desarrollo de una sensibilidad intercultural en los estudiantes, a través de actividades individuales y de grupo elaboradas a partir de los planteamientos del texto.

The objective of this research was to investigate the change of teaching for specific purposes in the students´ believes on teaching/learning of languages and the reflection of these changes in the motivation for learning a new language. The objectives of this study were to map and investigate the beliefs and the motivation before and after the course; verifying if and how the teaching for specific purposes influenced in the beliefs and if the modification of the beliefs influenced in the motivation of the students towards learning Spanish as a foreign language. The Socio-interactionist theory was used as theoretical foundation, as well as teaching for specific purposes, the beliefs and the motivation. The collection of data for the research was carried out during the classes of two editions of the project Espanhol para Viagens, through a pre and post-questionnaire, interviews and observations. The data analysis showed that the beliefs and the motivation of the students influenced and suffered influence of the teaching/learning of Spanish for specific purposes, in such a way that some beliefs were redefined and others came up. In the course of the analysis, some beliefs related to the Spanish language were identified, that consider it an easy language to learn, because of its similarity to Portuguese. At the same time, the students believe that this similarity can cause confusion to the learner. Regarding interaction, the students believe that it favors communication between teacher-learner/learner-learner, which is an essential point for learning Spanish as a foreign language. We consider that the direct contact with Spanish in the classroom and the constant interaction with the teacher were determining aspects for the redefining of the students´ beliefs and for the increase of motivation during the classes of the course. / O objetivo geral desta pesquisa foi investigar a modificação do Ensino Instrumental nas crenças de alunos sobre ensino/aprendizagem de línguas e os reflexos dessa modificação na motivação para aprender um novo idioma. Os objetivos específicos do trabalho foram mapear e investigar as crenças e a motivação antes e depois do curso, verificando se e de que maneira o Ensino Instrumental influenciou as crenças e, por sua vez, se a modificação das crenças influenciou a motivação dos alunos para aprendizagem do Espanhol como Língua Estrangeira (ELE). A teoria Sociointeracionista foi utilizada como embasamento teórico, assim como o Ensino Instrumental, as crenças e a motivação. A coleta de dados para a pesquisa foi efetuada durante as aulas de duas edições do Curso de Espanhol para Viagens, através de pré e pós-questionário, entrevista e observação. A análise de dados revelou que as crenças e a motivação dos alunos influenciaram e sofreram influência do processo de ensino/aprendizagem de ELE instrumental, de modo que algumas crenças foram ressignificadas e outras acabaram surgindo. No decorrer da análise, foram identificadas crenças relacionadas com a Língua Espanhola, as quais a consideram uma língua fácil de aprender, pela semelhança com o Português. Ao mesmo tempo, os alunos acreditam que essa semelhança pode causar uma desorganização no aprendiz, ou seja, pode confundi-los ainda mais. Com relação à interação, os alunos acreditam que ela favorece o estabelecimento da comunicação entre professor-aluno e aluno-aluno, fator considerado essencial para a aprendizagem de ELE. Consideramos que o contato direto com a Língua Espanhola em sala de aula e a interação constante com o professor foram aspectos determinantes para a ressignificação das crenças dos alunos pelo aumento da motivação no desenvolvimento das aulas do curso.