Desafios no ensino da língua inglesa durante a pandemia da Covid-19 em duas escolas públicas do município de Santarém-PA

Abstract

This research aimed to analyse the challenges faced in teaching English in two public schools in the city of Santarém-Pa during the Covid-19 pandemic. The study was carried out through a case study. For data generation we used the questionnaire, observation, and field notes and for data analysis we used the Applied Thematic Analysis. The study participants were a director and an English teacher from a school in the municipal school system and a director and an English teacher from a state system school. The challenges identified refer to the difficulty of access to technological resources, which limited teaching and study and significantly impacted the learning of English during the Covid-19 pandemic, to social, emotional and psychological factors that affected teachers and students, to the difficulties of students with the mother tongue, the lack of commitment of the families and the interest of the students, the lack of teacher education regarding the use of digital technologies in teaching and the precarious training of these professionals for the use of digital tools in remote teaching. It is concluded that the difficulties faced in teaching English during the Covid-19 pandemic have multiple faces linked to management, pedagogical, social and health factors, which have demanded efforts so that teaching and learning can be adequately monitored and supported in this phase of returning to face-to-face classes.