Problematizando sentidos de língua em uma sala de aula de língua inglesa

• Autor(a) principal: Ferreira, Fernanda Caiado da Costa
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/8338
• topic: Sentidos de língua; Invenção das línguas; Ensino crítico de inglês; Language meanings; Language invention; Critical English learning; LETRAS::LINGUAS ESTRANGEIRAS MODERNAS

In this study, I aim to discuss the language meanings constructed by the students in an English language classroom, of an undergraduate English teacher education course (Letras: Inglês), as well as to problematize the pedagogical practice developed by the teacher based on the perception of the participants. To do so, I did an interpretative research, in which the construction of knowledge is understood as a process that occurs through interpretive processes in the encounter with other subjects. This understanding brings, as a consequence, to the researchers, the understanding that human actions are permeated by contextual social meanings. The data generation in the classroom began on October 20 and ended on December 22, 2016, while individual interviews with the students were extended until May 2017. Five female students and two male students, the teacher and I, as a researcher, participated in this study. The problematization in this way starts from the perspective that languages are social constructions linked to the colonialist and nationalist projects, established from a policy of exploration and control of the individuals (IRVINE; GAL, 2000; MAKONI; PENNYCOOK, 2007; MIGNOLO, 2005. Thus, from the empirical material, I try to problematize hegemonic presuppositions of modernity (CASTRO-GÓMEZ, 2005; DUSSEL, 1994, 2005; MIGNOLO, 2003) by confronting the autonomy and homogeneity of the language and reflecting not only about the relations between language and power but also about the ideologies present in the practices implemented in the classroom. With regard to the language meanings constructed by the students in the classroom, the reflections made in this dissertation, point to the reproduction of a colonial epistemology. In their reports and positionings, the students established relations between language and subalternity, considering that all of them expressed feelings of oppression in the process of learning both Portuguese and English. In addition, it was also possible to perceive hierarchical relations between languages really connected to the colonial ideology, and the enhancement of this or that linguistic identity was shown to be linked to the belonging to a certain race and territory that have prestige or not, depending on the role of colonizer or colonized, as well as its categorization of the First or Third World. With regard to the problematization of thepedagogical practice developed by the teacher, it was possible to perceive that the debates were fruitful in the process of language disinvention and resulted in the formation of the teachers participating in this research, bringing reflections on the role of language in the construction of unequal and subaltern realities. In the same way, they motivated changes with respect to their professional identity, that is, in relation to their conception of Language teaching, which came to be understood in its social aspects. Therefore, I believe that the practices discussed fostered spaces of resistance to naturalized subordination relations, and, thus, processes of unlearning took place, considering that discourses were questioned and reconstructed.