Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras/Inglês e Literatura Correspondente.The present study, which takes a qualitative perspective, aims at investigating the perceptions that three Brazilian undergraduate students of "Letras" hold concerning the teaching of the four major skills in English as a foreign language in the classroom context, with a view to understanding how their perceptions relate to their pedagogical practice.