<b>(Des)contextualized assessment of the english language in primary teaching - the distance between theory and practice
Abstract
Current paper analyzes evaluations of the theoretical proposal of contextualized assessment (from PCNs) and the contingency of this practice. The corpus comprised ten assessments provided by teachers to students of the 6th to 9th grades of elementary government schools in the state of Minas Gerais,Brazil. Analyzed documents revealed emphasis on systemic aspects, especially grammar correction, through objective and structured exercises. There does not seem to be any interaction with the student; activities are predominantly abstract, with only slight significance. This may be due to the language concepts of the teachers and which guided their practice. Such a concept sees language as an idealized construct unrelated to world reality and which reduces learning to the knowledge of grammar.
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