THE CONSTRUCTION OF CHILDREN'S ENGLISH LANGUAGE READING AND WRITING IN A BILINGUAL EDUCATION CONTEXT: CHARACTERISTICS OF LANGUAGE, INTERACTION AND MEDIATION
Applied linguistics. English language. Additional language. Bilingual teaching and learning. Mediation.
This research aims to reflect on the literacy process during classes taught in English, in a first-grade class of an Elementary School at a bilingual school located in the city of Sinop-MT. The study aims to investigate and report how interaction is characterized and how learning to read and write in English occurs, in addition to identifying how mediation occurs in this process. Authors such as Vygotsky (1998), Megale (2020) and Soares (2022), among others supported theoretically the research and allowed a dialogue with the data generated in the classroom. The methodology used is qualitative and has an ethnographic basis, due to the researcher's immersion for a long time in the data generation environment, allowing her to carry out participant observation, activity records, field notes and recording of interactions. Through the data generated, we can see the relevance of the teacher's mediation for student learning and how children use their linguistic repertoire when faced with reading and writing activities.