Ideologies about bilingual education in narratives of deaf women and possible relationship to the translingual approach

• Autor(a) principal: Pereira Pires Costa, Mairla
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Gomes, Bianca Sena, Costa, Gilmara Jales da
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Working Papers em Lingüística (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/workingpapers/article/view/83310
• topic: Deaf education; Brazilian Sign Language; Translanguaging; Linguistic ideology; Educação de surdos; Língua Brasileira de Sinais; Translinguagem; Ideologia linguística

Currently, translanguaging is being used as a way to provide education for bilinguals, taking into account holistic aspects of the individual, such as respect for cultures, languages, and societies that are involved in this teaching and learning process (GARCÍA, 2009a; GARCÍA, 2009b). By researching into the educational background of deaf people in Brazil and the requirements indicated by educational policies in order for such people to have access to a Libras-Portuguese bilingual education, this study deals with deaf education and linguistic ideologies in dialogue with the theme of translanguaging. Based on narratives of four deaf bilinguals, we analyze possible relationship with translanguaging practices. The interviews were selected from the Corpus Libras Project, in speeches produced in Libras, recorded on videos. As a result, we identified that the interviewees’ narratives about their school life were in accordance to the translingual approach, in the different experiences of deaf women. Different paths were identified for language acquisition and/or language learning (s) as well as different pedagogical actions by teachers in the teaching of the deaf. Such analysis highlights the importance of living in a linguistic community (in sign language) as a factor that favors the construction of deaf identity and culture, which were reoccurring aspects narrated by the interviewees. The non-naming of languages is a matter that needs to be better discussed, considering the context of bimodal bilinguals (Libras and Portuguese).