This article aims to investigate and analyze the beliefs of teachers of the four public high schools in Monte Alegre – PA (Francisco Nobre de Almeida, Escola de Educação Tecnológica do Estado do Pará, Fernando Henrique, and Carim Melém) about teaching and learning English in these schools. To conceptualize the word “belief”, it is used as reference the ideas of Almeida Filho (1993), Pajares (1992), Gardner (1998), Barcelos (2004), who contributed to this research with their definitions of teachers' beliefs; Paiva (1997), Félix (1999), Moita Lopes 1996) who also emphasize the study of beliefs. To achieve this goal, a questionnaire with 7 questions was used and an informal oral interview recorded with the four teachers who work in the schools of Monte Alegre – PA. Aiming to clarify the beliefs of these research participants who believe it is important for public school students to learn English, but most teachers believe it is not possible to learn all the four skills.
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