O ensino de português como língua estrangeira no Canadá: um olhar sobre o português na Universidade de Toronto

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Tatiane Maiara Cabral da
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/218001
• topic: Teaching and learning; Portuguese as a foreign language; Motivation and interest; Ensino e aprendizagem; Português língua estrangeira; Motivação e interesse; Canadá; Canada

This study is about “Teaching Portuguese as a Foreign Language in Canada”. The overall goal is to comprehend how the teaching-learning process of Portuguese takes place among Canadians and how much Brazilian culture can influence this process. Therefore, two specific goals were established: I) to observe the extent to which social events in terms of Brazilian culture (e.g., music, cooking, literature, painting, etc.) held in Canada contribute to the interest and motivation of the natives in learning the Portuguese language; and II) to identify the main interests, motivations and purposes of Canadians in learning Portuguese. This study employs qualitative and interpretive methods. The corpus consists of a questionnaire applied and, then, semantically analyzed, to verify the discursive regularities using categories about the Portuguese learning in Canada. The analysis reveals that the types of motivation recurring in the Portuguese learning process by these students are: intrinsic motivation by curiosity, integrated extrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation. The curiosity and appreciation of cultural aspects related to the Portuguese language and Portuguese-speaking countries are a predominant reason in the motivation and interest of these students. Furthermore, it was also verified that intrinsic motivation by curiosity about culture is more prevalent than the motivation based on financial benefits that Portuguese language may bring. However, social events in terms of Brazilian culture are not a relevant reason for these student’s motivation and interest. This study aims to contribute to the dissemination and maintenance of the Portuguese language in multilingual and multicultural contexts such as in Canada, and narrow the knowledge gap of research on this theme.