Beliefs in the foreign language teaching / learning process / English language: a case study

Result of concerns about the best way of learning in which believe the Lingua Estrangeira undergraduate students, as well as students of language courses, this study aims to indicate the beliefs and its actions on behavior. For this will be presented beliefs that pass through the teaching/learning process of foreign language, specifically, English Language as well as the natures of them. The research has as theoretical framework studies and researches in the area of teaching/ learning foreign languages which focus on beliefs. As methodology, the case study was realized semi-open questionnaire, with under graduate students from Modern Language Course/English Language at Universidade Federal da Bahia and students from English language course and observations realized during the classes. The results suggest that beliefs are related to the construction of learning as many under graduate students (starts and graduates) as English language course students. And they influence both positive and negative, with special part in the student's construct leaning.