Language and silencing: An analysis of the treatment given to the mother tongue in primary education based in narratives of Portuguese language teachers
Language and silencing: An analysis of the treatment given to the mother tongue in primary education based in narratives of Portuguese language teachers
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DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.929362330084
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Palavras-chave: Ensino e aprendizado de língua materna; Estudos Narrativos; Linguística Aplicada
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Keywords: Mother tongue’s teaching and learning; Narrative studies; Applied Linguistics
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Abstract: This research aims at analyzing some of the difficulties faced by Portuguese language teachers in the production of an epistemologically based, multicultural and aggregating mother tongue teaching in the context of peripheral realities of basic education. Thus, based on the analysis of the narratives of Portuguese language teachers working in the Elementary two and High School segments of certain public schools located in suburban areas of the state of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), we propose to build reflections on the subjectivities of their discourses and identify the possible components that hinder the production of a heterogeneous and epistemologically based language teaching. Due to the nature of the research (essentially qualitative and interpretative), the analysis was elaborated from the theoretical pillars proposed by Narrative Studies and Interpretative Analysis. It was possible to observe that the narratives of the Portuguese Language teachers were constructed in order to explain some of the challenges faced by them in relation to the integration of linguistic variation in the current teaching methodology, such as: dichotomy between the view of language as a substantiated epistemological object and a vision of language as a normative object; performance of pedagogical instruments in the perpetuation of prescriptive teaching; inconsistencies between official guidelines and professional performance and the existence of linguistic prejudice in the school environment.
- WILLIAM SOARES DOS SANTOS
- DEBORA MAZZEO CAPUTO