The influence of context on English language learning during remote teaching in a regular elementary school from the perspective of Complexity Theory
learning context; circumstantial experiences; emergency remote teaching; English language teaching; high school, private school
The objective of this research is to analyze the contextual aspects present in the English language learning experience of high school students, carried out in the emergency remote teaching modality. All 1st, 2nd and 3rd year students from a private school in Belo Horizonte, who experienced emergency remote teaching in 2020, will be invited to participate. Data will be generated by applying a form hosted on the Google Forms platform and conducting a semi-structured interview. Having contributions from the Brazilian experiential research (MICCOLI; BAMBIRRA; VIANINI, 2020) and the perspective of complexity theory (DE BOT; LARSEN-FREEMAN, 2011) as the theoretical framework, the circumstantial experiences that emerge from the participants' narratives will be identified and their composition made explicit. In addition to understanding how the context imposed by the emergency remote teaching modality influenced student learning, it is also expected that this research effort will succeed in highlighting the power that the context has to shape what happens in the English classroom.