APRENDIZAGEM EXITOSA DE INGLÊS POR AFILIAÇÃO A COMUNIDADES IMAGINADAS

Abstract

This study is based on the results obtained in my doctoral thesis and aims to explain how affiliations to Imagined Communities influence the learning of English as a foreign language in the sotheast od Brazil. Undergraduate students taking Letters at a state university participated providing oral narratives of their successful English learning experiences permeated by affiliations to imagined communities. Only the experience of one student was analyzed, due to the richness of her reports and considering the purpose of this research. In this article, I focus on the analysis of one of the communities, the one that included the student in the process of linguistic development. The results confirmed the student’s affiliations to Imagined Communities regarding TV series and documented their pedagogical strength to learning English as a foreign language.