applied linguistics field. Our concepts are basedin Bakhtin ideas about gender texts. Our initial hypothesis is comics readingscan be a good strategically way to contribute for a competent reading inEnglish Language, so we develop a workshop with students from elementary schoolwith reading strategies of comics and it was satisfactory activity withcomprehension of texts. Aline Clemente Pereira da Silva e Marcia Letricia Gomes Barbosa UFT Student Course ( Orientandas do PIVIC da profa Ana Emilia) - Porto NacionalTitle of presentation: Representationsabout English Language Teaching Built by Teachers from Public Schools of PortoNacional and RegionSummary of presentation : In this communication we intend to present some results ofour research :O Desenvolvimento da Autonomia do Professor e do Aluno noProcesso de Ensino-Aprendizagem deLingua Inglesa em Escolas Publicas de Porto Nacional, Tocantins. One of thegoals of the research is to accomplish a survey in the publicschools of Porto Nacional and region, inorder to identify which representations are built by teachers regarding the English Language Teaching-learning,and based on the results propose activities of understanding the importance oflearning a foreign language, looking for possible ways for the students toproduce their own knowledge, surpassing the limits of the school walls, in viewof their autonomy.Until now, we have given somequestionnaires to the teachers. They were supposed to answer questions abouttheir practice so that we could analyze how they see theEnglish Language Teaching what their beliefs are, what teaching methods theyuse in their classes. By reading the answers to the questionnaires we noticedrepeated textual configurations, similar points of view and similar methods ofteaching. 16:00 16:30 - Coffee break 16:30-17:30 WORKSHOPS Workshop 1 Joao Paulo F. Tinoco Machado; Marcia Letricia G. Barbosa;Natalia Cristina de Oliveira Graduandos em Letras e Monitores do CECCLA UFT Profa Daniella CorciolliTitle of presentation: Somehelpful ways to improve the teaching and learning of English as a foreignlanguageSummary ofpresentation: This workshop aims at showing andhelping teachers to develop different techniques to teach English as a foreignlanguage. As students of Language Arts at Federal University of Tocantins and,at the same time, English teachers at CECLLA, we have been led to thereflection about our classes and to the way we deal with our students and theirlearning of English language. The project - CECLLA (Centro de Estudos Continuados em Letras, Linguistica e Artes)- has given us the opportunity to improve our English learning andteaching abilities. Therefore, we intend to share our experiences with otherteachers of English, helping them with some information and ideas to be appliedin their classrooms. Based on our lessons at CECLLA and on our own reflectionsabout different language teaching approaches and methods, we have chosen some activitiessuch as the use of authentic language, realia, games, question-and-answerdrills and role-plays (Larsen-Freeman, 2010) to make it easier to teachersworking with the target language. Workshop 2 EvertonFrancisco da Silva CECCLA UFT Porto NacionalTitle of presentation: The Uses ofAffixes: Prefixes and Suffixes in English LanguageSummary ofpresentation: This workshop aims at showing toelementary students of English language some clues about dealing with differentand new English words. It also aims at teaching them some easy ways to find outthe meaning of several words without the massive