Reflections on policies which guide English language teaching to the deaf in Brazil / Reflexões sobre políticas que orientam o ensino de inglês para surdos no Brasil

• Autor(a) principal: Moraes, Antonio Henrique Coutelo de
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Barros, Solange Maria de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Revista Veras
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.brazilianjournals.com.br/ojs/index.php/BRJD/article/view/18796
• topic: Education policies; bilingualism; teaching; English; deaf.

Although the discussion about Brazilian education and language policies has been gaining ground in research, the issue of teaching a foreign language to deaf people still does not seem to occupy due space in the concern of researchers. In this sense, we intend to outline reflections about the teaching of the English language for deaf people in Brazil, investigating (in) congruences between what the official texts propose. To achieve our goal, we based our discussions on Bhaskar (1998), Luke (2009), Moutinho (2016), Quadros (2017), Moraes (2018) and Tílio (2019), among others. The adopted methodology followed the guidelines of Gil (2010) for bibliographic and documentary research. For the exploratory/qualitative discussion, we approach official documents about deafness and English language teaching. The data point to an erasure of the differences in documents that guide the teaching of English to the deaf and to the fact that there are no favourable conditions for the full linguistic development of the deaf.