Abstract

CABRAL, Vinícius Neves de  and  MELETTI, Silvia Márcia Ferreira. English teaching and disability: the Brazilian scientific production. Rev. Elet. Educ. [online]. 2020, vol.14, e3280061.  Epub Mar 03, 2020. ISSN 1982-7199.  https://doi.org/10.14244/198271993280.

Based on the historical-dialectical-cultural materialism, the article aims to present an analysis of the Brazilian scientific production about the teaching of English to students with disabilities in Brazil. The article focuses on the dissertations and theses from graduate programs in Education and Literature/Linguistics between 2000 and 2016 in the whole country. From data drawn from the Sucupira Platform and the websites of the programs of the areas, a survey of all the works was conducted and 46,256 works were cataloged. Out of all the results, 20 dissertations and 3 theses had the focus sought. The 20 works that were available were analyzed. In terms of contexts, results show that there is great evidence of the concentration of graduate programs in the Southeast and South of the country, highlighting the need to promote postgraduate programs in the other regions of the country. The analyzes of the works indicate: lack of the theoretical backgrounds to support the researches; a contradiction between the concept of education and disabilities; an indication of the teacher as incapable of teaching; the perception of segregation as the best option for students with disabilities; and the need of examples of activities that may be adapted by teacher when teaching students with disabilities.

Keywords : Applied linguistics; Special education; English teaching..

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