Promotion of the Portuguese language: studies in teacher education

• Autor(a) principal: Sá, Cristina Manuela
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34624/id.v9i2.508

The experience we have as a teacher in Higher Education, a supervisor of teacher training anda researcher led us to be aware of problems resulting from the image of Portuguese languagein today’s world. This issue is especially relevant in what concerns Education in Portuguese takinginto account the influence of the image of the mother tongue promoted by its teaching/learningprocess over the way Portuguese citizens use it in their social praxis.These reflections made us do several exploratory studies (inspired by a matrix-study) focused onthe identification of the conceptions of early childhood educators and teachers on the valueof Portuguese language in today’s world. In these studies, done with the collaboration of otherresearchers, we gathered data through a questionnaire (produced within the matrix-study) whichwere the object of content analysis complemented by descriptive statistics (absolute and relativefrequencies), whenever needed.In this text, we compare the conceptions of the three publics and conclude they are rather similar(although they refer to future and in-service professionals) and have important consequences(sometimes negative) concerning the teaching/learning of the mother tongue. Consequently, it’surgent to try to change them within teacher education processes.