INTERCULTURAL SPACES IN TEACHING ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE TO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN BRAZIL

This work is part of my doctoral research in Brazil. I have been investigating the presence of Intercultural Spaces in the English lessons in an Elementary School from the perspective of the teacher. Thus, it is a Case Study in which lesson observations will be compared to the teacher's discourse about her own practice (Cohen, Manion & Morrison, 2011). It is a study of a single teacher practice and the students are not participants. The definition of Intercultural Spaces is based on Bhaba's concept (1994), Kostogriz's definition (2005) applied to Second Language Acquisition, Kramsch's idea (2009) in the context of Foreign Language Learning and Widin and Yasukawa's study (2013) when it comes to teacher's role of creating such types of Intercultural Spaces in the classroom. Hence, as background to this research, it is believed that students in Early Elementary School, who are between seven and ten years old, should be educated as critical and ethical citizens (Morin, 2005; Menezes de Sousa, 2011; Rocha 2012). Thus, I expect to contribute to Teacher Education with this research in the light of New Learning (Cope & Kalantzis, 2012).