Media Subjects on Body Image in the Teenagers´s Point of View: A Teaching Proposal of Critical Reading (ESP)

Authors

  • Aline Provedel Dib CEFET, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  • Gisele C. Cohen Fonseca CEFET, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

Keywords:

ethnographical method, critical reading, media, beauty patterns

Abstract

This article analyzes an activity included in a group of pedagogical practices that aimed at the discussion about the construction of standardized concepts concerning beauty by the media. The interactions took place in an English classroom during the third quarter of 2007, in a senior high class of the Nursery course of a federal institution. We will present the students’ answers to a questionnaire developed by a web site called MEDIA AWARENESS NETWORK when analyzing the data. The theoretical approach includes the voices of Bakhtin (2003) and Vygotsky (1973, 1998, 2001) and as research methodology we will follow the ethnographical method (Erickson, 1984, Moita Lopes, 1996).

Author Biographies

Aline Provedel Dib, CEFET, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

Aline Provedel Dib holds an MA in Applied Linguistics from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). She has been teaching English at CEFET-RJ since 2005.

Gisele C. Cohen Fonseca, CEFET, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

Gisele Cristina Cohen Fonseca is majoring in Applied Linguistics (MA) at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). She has been teaching English at CEFET-RJ since 2005.

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Vol. 29 (2008): Especial

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