O CONTEXTO SOCIALNA MOTIVAÇÃO DE CRIANÇAS APRENDIZESDE UMA LÍNGUA ESTRANGEIRA

by Morales Marins, Ida maria

This study aimed to verify the origins of children?s motivations to learn a foreign language at school. The investigated subjects were children ? beginners in English at a rural school and children ? beginners in Spanish at an urban school. The data for this study were colleted through different instruments getting information from children, their families and from their school context. The results indicate that the motivations showed by children come from social constructions developed in the process of interaction: subject/social context, in the case of this study, from children?s interaction with the family and their school contexts.