Relatório Final do Estágio Pedagógico de Licenciatura em Ciências da Educação, Em Ensino da Língua Inglesa

Abstract

The purpose of this report is to describe the internship carried out at Liceu n°134 do Nambambi, involving students from grade 10 and 11 regarding to teaching English as a foreign language, the experiences, knowledge and skills obtained, how it was supervised and mentored and the main challenges and the main difficulties. The main challenges faced were as follows: (a) managing classes; (b) use students’ L1; (c) developing students’ speaking skills. Despite all these challenges, it was concluded that (a) knowing the strategies to manage a class is crucial for the effectiveness of EFL learning; (b) using L1 in EFL classes when not excessive mainly to clarify some tasks can help to effectively achieve the aim of the lesson and save time, (c) use different teaching approaches makes teaching of English as a foreign language more constructive and improves learning process (d), knowing the role that a teacher needs to play on reading lessons as well as the strategies to develop students’ speaking skills can help them to be more interactive in lessons and make them speaking fluently.