Crenças sobre o professor de língua inglesa: uma análise de diferentes relações estabelecidas em atos de fala de professores em pré-serviço

Abstract

The initial process of FL teachers´ education will guide the future teachers conduct, as well the image that they will cultivate in the future about themselves as a teacher. Therefore, to understand and to interpret the beliefs involved in this process can be a path for favorable interventions in training professionals working in this area. According to Vieira-Abrahão (2004, p.131), teachers and student teachers, when in contact with the theoretical and practical knowledge in the training courses, make "a particular reading, which brings reflections to build their practice". For Williams (2001, p. 121), prospective teachers begin programs of pre-service graduation with ample personal baggage , baggage that is needed, in his view , to be " unpacked " before being " rebuilt". Therefore, this dissertation presents a research carried out by analyzing the beliefs present in the narratives of FL teachers in pre-service in order to identify, in accordance with these subjects, which is the image of the teacher assumed by them. The research was conducted in a University Center located in southern Tocantins and the participants were two groups of undergraduates in Letters (Language course), seeking to answer the following questions: (i) what is the image that these pre-service teachers have on the image of the FL teacher? (ii) In wich manners what is said by FL teachers in pre - service teacher interfere in the academic training of these future teachers? In order to discuss the data generated, we assume, within a contextual approach, a qualitative research wich also has descriptive and interpretative characteristics in order to characterize the treatment of narratives. We discussed these beliefs based on the Theory of Speech Acts and on the Bakhtiniana perspective of speech, as well as from theories that discuss beliefs, teacher training, and FL teaching, by using an applied linguistic view. The analysis of the narratives written by the participants revealed basically three categories of FL professionals: (i) rare, (ii) careful and friends, (iii) unpleasant. Although these categories have undergone some variations between the two groups of participants, the central idea is set in the three categories presented.