*Introduction
Our goal in this interview is to know a little more about the implementation of the project Foreign Language Online News (JOLE). So, we interviewed Telma Sueli Farias Ferreira, the coordinator of foreign language at CIC Damas. We asked her a little about her professional and personal life, and mainly about the project.
*Interview
Telma is married, has two children (two year and nine month boys and an eleven year girl). She was born in Campina Grande. She has been working at CIC Damas for 11 years. Nowadays, she coordinates the foreign language area.
Group: Before teaching, what did you do?
Telma: I finished the course of business administration and worked in an administration office.
Group: Do you like what you do? Did you always want to do this?
Telma: Yes, I love it. I did not know what to do when I finished the course of Arts. Soon after, I started working at Damas School.
Group: How is your teaching method?
Telma: Using current methods, but also traditional ones, because most students ask me. Today, I deal much more with texts because of the vestibular. You know, who does not read texts in English will not have good grades.
Group: Why do you think you got this position?
Telma: Maybe because of the time that I’m here and my work experience. I’ve already taught in elementary I and II, nowadays I’m teaching high school groups.
Group: What do you think is still missing in this school?
Telma: I’d like to see a better infrastructure and that would be a foreign languages laboratory.
Group: How did the JOLE come up and what its intention?
Telma: The project was teacher Tone’s idea. The project reveals our effort to encourage students to produce and read texts in a foreign language.
Group: How was the first edition?
Telma: It was quite positive, but with some structural problems, such as the interview came at the beginning of the news. It also had some good points, as a student of the first year of high school who did an interview with teacher Gilma D’Arc, history teacher about her work at a prison.
Group: Has the project already had a result?
Telma: Yes, as I have already talked about it. For instance, how the first edition came out and its pros and cons . There will be, kind of, four editions a year, being one per term. Initially, the teachers complained, but after a meeting with sister Rosimar, it was decided that it will definitely be one per term.
Group: What is going to change on student’s lives?
Telma: Well, we hope students begin to be more interested in it when they see their work online and also in a printed edition. So, they will probably call their parents, friends and neighbours to see their texts. Certainly, these people will praise their work. They will be encouraged to develop further works in a foreign language.
Group: What is the content of the online news and its target audience?
Telma: Textual genres approached in the classroom, as interviews, cartoons, strips end so on .It aims CIC damas students as well as their families and friends, but also can be extended to the whole community.
Group: Is there anything else to add?
Telma: Not by now.Thanks.
Group: We thank you for interview, and we wish you a good work with this new project.
Telma: Thank you.
*Conclusion
As we have seen, the JOLE was a teacher Tone’s idea, but thanks to teacher Telma encouragement it has also achieved a great success, a kind of online news written by students and addressed to anyone interested in it.. Isn´t that brilliant?
If you following JOLE, you must have seen the last edition. Thus, don´t miss the next ones coming up. Subjects about varied topics, for you enjoy them. Thus, we understand that it may raise an incentive for reading and writing in a foreign language. For us, to improve and encourage students to become real readers for a new world.
