A critical, decolonial glance at language teacher education in Brazil: on being prepared to teach

ABSTRACT The decolonial accounts made by a student teacher motivated us to problematize discourses about the “unpreparedness to teach languages at schools”, recurrent in the area of language teacher education in Brazil, and confront them with accounts of other student teachers and of applied linguis...

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Veröffentlicht in:Revista de documentação de estudos em lingüística teórica e aplicada 2019, Vol.35 (3)
Hauptverfasser: Mastrella-de-Andrade, Mariana R., Pessoa, Rosane Rocha
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:ABSTRACT The decolonial accounts made by a student teacher motivated us to problematize discourses about the “unpreparedness to teach languages at schools”, recurrent in the area of language teacher education in Brazil, and confront them with accounts of other student teachers and of applied linguistics, poststructuralist and decolonial scholars. In this interpretive study, discussions on the themes language, the subject and teaching, coming from the empirical material, led us to a perspective of teacher education as an “impossible but necessary project” (LOPES; BORGES, 2015) and to the need to educate language teachers “to talk” (SKLIAR, 2006), in view of the great complexity of teaching contexts. RESUMO Relatos decoloniais de um licenciando nos motivaram a problematizar discursos sobre o “despreparo para ensinar línguas na escola”, recorrentes na área de formação docente no Brasil, e a cotejá-los com os relatos de outras/os licenciandas/os e de estudiosas/os da linguística aplicada, do pós-estruturalismo e do pensamento decolonial. Neste estudo interpretativista, as discussões dos temas língua, sujeito e ensino, advindos do material empírico, nos direcionaram a uma perspectiva de formação como um “projeto impossível, porém necessário” (LOPES; BORGES, 2015), e à necessidade de formar professoras/es de línguas para “conversar” (SKLIAR, 2006), haja vista a grande complexidade dos contextos de atuação docente.
ISSN:0102-4450
1678-460X
1678-460X
DOI:10.1590/1678-460x2019350306