Tradition of foreign language teaching and learning: focusing the Brazilian Portuguese as a Foreign Language textbook

• Autor(a) principal: Azevedo, Isabel Cristina Michelan de
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Piris, Eduardo Lopes
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Lingüística Aplicada (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://www.periodicos.letras.ufmg.br/index.php/rbla/article/view/12044
• topic: Foucault; Foreign language pedagogy; Textbook; Brazilian Portuguese.; Foucault; Foreign language pedagogy; Textbook; Brazilian Portuguese.

We discuss the concept of tradition of foreign language teaching and learning, in order to consider the role of the Brazilian Portuguese as a Foreign Language (BPFL) textbook in this tradition. Therefore, based on Bornheim (1987), we present our conception of tradition of foreign language teaching and learning, also resorting to Titone (1968), Kelly (1969), Leffa (2012), and Dickey (2012). Thereafter, according to Foucault (1971), we analyze a BPFL textbook published in 1966 and another in 2011, focusing on activities proposed by the textbooks. Lastly, our reflection suggest that the BPFL textbook, as an element of this tradition, turns teachers and students into domesticated subjects of the foreign language pedagogy discourse which does not favor language teaching practices, but of mechanical repetition of grammatical exercises.