Saberes para um ensino bilíngüe na educação infantil

Abstract

The subject of this study is Knowledges for a bilingual teaching in the Infant Education . The problem of this investigation consists of: Does the bilingual teaching in the Infant Education influence the children s development? It aims at verifying the possibility and the relevance of the English Language insertion for preschool children. It also aims at developing further studies regarding the bilingualism in the Infant Education. The study focused on the ideas of Grosjean (1982) Vygotsky (1998a, b, c; 2000), Luckman and Berger (1985), Barbosa (1997), Schultz (2002; 2004), Mello (1999; 2002). The investigation followed a dialectical approach. A theoretic and bibliographical research was developed taking into consideration the information collected from visits and interviews with teachers and managers from 6 private schools which offer the English language as a subject in the Infant Education as well as from a bilingual school in Goiânia. It was possible to prove, with this study, that the language is an essential factor in the children development. Moreover, learning foreign languages collaborates with this development. It was also possible to understand that, there is a need for the teacher, who works with the Infant Education, to be graduated from university and that, in the case of the education of a foreign language, he or she must have the necessary knowledge to teach it in this level of education as it is not enough being only an English teacher, it is also important to be a pedagogue.