A documental analysis of official language policies for the Exchange Program for Undergraduate Students (PEC-G): looking back, thinking ahead

• Autor(a) principal: Dionísio, Cynthia Israelly Barbalho
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Horizontes de Linguística Aplicada
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/horizontesla/article/view/25148
• topic: language policies; Portuguese as an additional language; PEC-G; Políticas linguísticas; Português como língua adicional; PEC-G

The Exchange Program for Undergraduate Students (PEC-G) is the oldest international cooperation program in higher education in Brazil and also one of the most complex. In this work, our goal is to discuss the language policies on the Portuguese language inscribed in PEC-G’s official documents. We made an analysis of official documents that have been guiding PEC-G from 1965 to 2013, according to a qualitative and interpretative methodology. Our central theoretical notion was that of language management as one of the dimensions of the language policy advocated by Spolsky (2004, 2009).  We concluded that there is a more intense formalization of language policies aimed at the PEC-G throughout its existence, but there are still aspects that do not find support in the current documents, such as teacher training, curriculum and convergence among Portuguese language courses offered in the country. We aim to contribute to research that analyzes the relationship between Portuguese language teaching and PEC-G as embedded in political dimensions and, thus, to support proposals in this regard.