A graduação em letras-inglês como formação contínua: desfazendo unilateralidades

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Paulo Roberto Boa Sorte
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/13674
• topic: Formação inicial; Formação contínua; Professor de Inglês; Graduação em Letras-Inglês; Initial education; Continuing Education. English Language Teacher. College Degree in English Language Teaching; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LINGUISTICA::LINGUISTICA APLICADA

This thesis claims that a College degree in English Language Teaching may have the status of continuing education for students who already work as teachers, that is, they have experience either at language institutes or state/private schools. In this sense, this study aims to examine how experienced English language teachers, enrolled in English Language Teaching courses at College, understand the education they are engaged in. In order to do that, it is necessary to investigate the Senses and Meanings that a group of student-teachers attribute to the education they receive; the knowledge that contribute to the attribution of those Senses and Meanings; and it is also necessary to explain how the understanding of the student-teachers about their experience attribute to English Language Teaching courses the status of continuing education. This is a qualitative research, characterized as a case study (YIN, 2010) and inserted in Applied Linguistics field. The theoretical basis are related to the differences between initial and continuing education (PERRENOUD, 2002; GIMENEZ, 2005; GEDHIN ET AL., 2008; CELANI, 2010), pointing out that, not always these two types of education, especially the ones related to English Language Teaching, have such a linear relationship as their nomenclatures might indicate (HUGHES, 1996; MENEZES, 2003; AZAMBUJA, 2007; HEPP, 2008; MOITA LOPES & BASTOS, 2010; OLIVEIRA, 2010). There is also a discussion concerning the national curricular guidelines (BRASIL, 1996, 2002a, 2002b) and particularities of the Brazilian context (LIMA 2009, 2011; ALMEIDA, 2012, CHARLOT 2012); the relationship between theory and practice (RAJAGOPALAN, 1984; PEREIRA, 1988; PENNYCOOK, 2010); the teachers knowledge and survival strategies (GEERTZ, 1983/2009; WOODS, 1990; ROBERTSON, 1992; TARDIF, 2002; CANAGARAJAH, 2005); the contributions of Paulo Freire (1967/2011, 1968/2011) and the post-method condition (PRABHU, 1990; KUMARAVADIVELU, 1994, 2001, 2006). The concepts of Senses and Meanings, based on Vygotsky (1934/2010), are used as theoretical support to data analysis. Concerning the instrument of data collection, it has been chosen the semi-structured interview (RIZZINI, 1999; LÜDKE & ANDRÉ, 1996). The results indicate that while attending the courses at the University, experienced student-teachers opinions vary from those who are not experienced. In this case, the former are better able to identify theories and practices that do not adapt to their context than the latter. Experienced student-teachers have also added to their practice the experiential knowledge, which is a characteristic of teachers in continuing education. Even during the moments when the University does not help students to relate theory and practice, experienced student-teachers are aware that they need to reflect on their own practice and the role of the university in encouraging such reflection