Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 93-96).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 93-96). Also available in print.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:33:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 LUCIANE MARIS URVANEJA NAZARETH.pdf: 388657 bytes, checksum: 1e35f0f72e570b5c3f90f97996dcb570 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-02-24 / The need to learn a foreign language becomes increasingly present in both the day-to-day as in the world of work. The Training Course for Officers at Air Force Academy (AFA) in Pirassununga lasts four years and offers within its curriculum, English classes to the cadets. The field of oral mode of language is of paramount importance in the lives of future military pilots, since it is used in talk radio (phraseology) inside the aircraft and missions abroad. The dominance of English in the operational area of aviation is a key issue in terms of security. Several aircraft accidents, either on the ground or in flight, that were caused by miscommunication or misunderstandings between pilots and control tower. This study investigated the extent to which English course offered the cadets of the AFA (Course of general education and specific training), allows the acquisition of fluency in English required for competent performance of cadet airman. To achieve this goal we performed the documental analysis of Curriculum of English Language and English Instrumental Assessment Plan of the Air Force Academy and assessment tools applied to a class of 188 cadets at the end of 2nd and 4th years, between 2004 and 2006, aiming to derive if the targets with regard to the fluency of English were affected. Characterized, as well as a qualitative research, and was adopted as a methodological procedure to document analysis of curriculum in English with a focus on oral mode of language based on the Plan of Teaching Units, the Plan Evaluation Force Academy Air and Reports Analysis and assessment of quality teaching of the language course as well as official documents of the Air Force Academy and Air Force Command. After analyzing the results, the research indicates that between 2004 and 2006 the emphasis of the English course was in developing the skills of reading and writing, listening and speaking relegating the real focus of the course according to the Teaching Units Plan, the background. Thus, we obtained that the general objectives of the discipline, that would be to interpret written texts and oral presentations, and use speech acts in English and writing at advanced level were not achieved at the level proposed, which may have caused an insufficient learning and which might have affected the field of oral language. / A necessidade de aprender uma L?ngua Estrangeira se faz cada vez mais presente tanto no dia-a-dia como no mundo do trabalho. O Curso de Forma??o de Oficiais na Academia da For?a A?rea (AFA), em Pirassununga, tem dura??o de 4 (quatro) anos e oferece, dentro do seu curr?culo, aulas de L?ngua Inglesa aos cadetes. O dom?nio da modalidade oral da l?ngua ? de suma import?ncia na vida desses futuros pilotos militares, uma vez que ela ? usada na conversa via r?dio (fraseologia) dentro da aeronave e em miss?es no exterior. O dom?nio da L?ngua Inglesa no ?mbito operacional na ?rea da avia??o ? uma quest?o fundamental em termos de seguran?a. S?o v?rios os acidentes com aeronaves tanto em solo quanto em voo que ocorreram por falha de comunica??o ou mal-entendidos entre torre de controle e pilotos. O presente trabalho investigou at? que ponto o curso de Ingl?s oferecido as cadetes da AFA (Curso de forma??o geral e forma??o espec?fica), possibilita a aquisi??o da flu?ncia necess?ria em L?ngua Inglesa para a atua??o competente do cadete aviador. Para atingir este objetivo realizamos a analise documental do Curr?culo de L?ngua Inglesa e de Ingl?s Instrumental, do Plano de Avalia??o da Academia da For?a A?rea e dos instrumentos de avalia??o aplicados a uma turma de 188 cadetes, ao final do 2? e 4? anos, entre os anos de 2004 e 2006, visando auferir se as metas no que tange ? flu?ncia da L?ngua Inglesa foram atingidas. Caracterizou-se, assim, como uma pesquisa qualitativa, e adotou-se como procedimento metodol?gico a an?lise documental do curr?culo de L?ngua Inglesa com foco na modalidade oral da l?ngua tendo como base o Plano de unidades Did?ticas, o Plano de Avalia??o da Academia da For?a A?rea, e os Relat?rios de an?lise e avalia??o da qualidade pedag?gica do curso de idiomas, al?m de documentos oficiais da Academia da For?a A?rea e do Comando da Aeron?utica. Ap?s a an?lise dos resultados, a pesquisa aponta que entre os anos 2004 e 2006 a ?nfase do curso de ingl?s estava no desenvolvimento das habilidades de leitura e escrita, relegando audi??o e fala, os verdadeiros focos do curso segundo o Plano de Unidades Did?ticas, a um segundo plano. Dessa forma, pudemos auferir que os objetivos gerais da disciplina, que seriam interpretar textos escritos e exposi??es orais e empregar atos de fala e reda??es na l?ngua inglesa em n?vel avan?ado, n?o foram atingidos no n?vel proposto, fato que pode ter provocado uma aprendizagem insuficiente e que pode ter comprometido o dom?nio da modalidade oral da l?ngua.