Discursos constitutivos e constituintes sobre a língua inglesa nos Institutos Federais de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia: um estudo de caso no Triângulo Mineiro

• Autor(a) principal: Ferreira, Edilson Pimenta
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/6595
• topic: Linguística aplicada; Análise do discurso; Ensino profissional e técnico; Processo de ensino-aprendizagem de língua inglesa; Institutos Federais; Applied linguistics; Discourse analysis; Professional and technical teaching; English teaching-learning process; Federal institutes; LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LINGUISTICA

This thesis was developed in an inter/transdisciplinary approach that involves Critical Applied Linguistics, French Discourse Analysis and Dialogical Discourse Analysis. It was designed to investigate how four English professors (two in-service and two retired ones) at Triângulo Mineiro Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology represent the several transformations which have been proposed to the Federal Network of Professional Education, Science and Technology and how these representations have culminated in the English teaching experience nowadays. This thesis, which highlights the historical, ideological, dialogical and dialectic aspects of language, is grounded on an interface between the three aforementioned areas and on a set of 22 official documents, with which I built a timeline of the several changes proposed to the Network. In this way, it was possible to highlight the moments at the research subjects’ testimonies when more considerable changes to the English teaching-learning process in the centennial Federal Network of Professional Education, Science and Technology were proposed. For this investigation, I made use of AREDA proposal, by Serrani-Infante (1998), with which the testimonies of these four regular professors were analysed. This methodological tool for data collection was considered useful to accomplish the main objective of this study, which was to answer three research questions: 1) How do regular in-service and retired professors discourse about the English language in the several curriculums with which they worked?; 2) In which discursive practices do they circumscribe to discourse about the Federal Institute and about the English language?; 3) In which teaching concepts do these professors circumscribe while they are enunciating about their careers as English professors? It was possible to observe that the relationship that the research subjects have with the English teaching-learning process in the Federal Institute is ruled by three representations that I classified as: i) the non-place of English in the curriculum; ii) the non-identifying relationship with English; iii) grammar as a marker for the English teaching-learning process. These representations are interpenetrated and interconstituted and demonstrate that, while the research subjects circumscribe in the representation of the non-place of English in the curriculum, they demonstrate an inclination to devalue English in the curriculum, as they legitimize private language courses and enhance a historical and confrontational relationship between the English language and the mother tongue. While these subjects circumscribe in the representation of the non-identifying relationship with English, their enunciations are matched and reveal the self-image that they have in relation with the English language. In this process, they reveal a desire to occupy a different place in the institution while they highlight the professional stability as a reason to be or have been, for the retired ones, in the English teaching career. The third representation that they build demonstrates the language concept they have, that is, they overestimate structure and attribute to it the task of effectively teaching the language. Besides, they claim the institution is responsible for the unenforceability of an effective English language teaching-learning process