Reflexive teacher on orality appropriation in the foreign language teaching-learning process

This is a qualitative, documental and interpretative metasearch article on Applied Linguistics (LA) area, where the characteristics of the subjects involved (teachers and learners) in orality appropriation in the Foreign Language (LE) teaching-learning process are studied. In order to develop this article, theatrical texts, body and voice should be considered as appropriation mediators. The assumptions of Ortiz-Alvarez (2009) and Basso (2008) – reflexive competence – concerning the attitude of the teacher as a language professional who is reflexive on his/her practices, together with the definitions of Perrenoud (2000; 2008); Dewey (1959; [1916]2012; Freire (1975; 1976; 1984; 1996); Libâneo (2006) and Schön (1992; 2000) are here used. The professors metasearched on this article are Massaro (2001; 2007; 2008), from the University of São Paulo (USP) and Reis (2008; 2011; 2012), from the University of Brasilia(UnB); they are (re)analyzed according to the paradigms: a reflexive teacher in the exercise of his/her reflexive practices. The search for the conciliation between a practice peddled by theories and the classroom reality is visible on teachers’ thoughts – those professors not only contemplate their approaches and techniques, but also try to change or propose changes on the world perceptions of learners, other language teachers and, sometimes, their institutions. The term reflexivity is used to define the proposal of acting-thinking-(re)acting as a constant of language professionals lives. Along the reading of the metasearched professors’ work, it is noticed that they have a critical reflexive path (reflexivity) on their reflexive practices reality. They demand an emotional and cognitive involvement that supposes personal unique attitudes - such as an open mind that has the ability of listening to different opinions, with no prejudices or resistance which can block a certain question to be seen from a different point of view.

POPULAR METAPHORICAL CREATIONS: THE CASE OF ESPADRILLES IN PARANÁ AND LONDRINA

This article aims at analyzing the lexical maps of three linguistic atlases from Paraná: two related to the city of Londrina (AGUILERA, 1987 and ROMANO, 2012) and one related to the State of Paraná, the Linguistic Atlas of Paraná (AGUILERA, 1994), concerning the variants for espadrilles. As these are popular shoes that are falling out of use in Paraná, with this work our objective is to verify and discuss: (i) by means of real time and apparent time research (LABOV, 1996 [1972]), in two synchronies, the changes and resistances of the lexical units in the speech of people from Londrina; (ii) the lexical collection found in the three atlases and its dicionarization; (iii) how the creation of popular forms to name such popular shoes at the beginning of the colonization in the north of Paraná happens

Entre a Oficialização e a Desoficialização do Ensino de Espanhol no Brasil: Apontamentos e Implicações da Experiência Amapaense

Historicamente, o espanhol sempre esteve à margem das políticas de ensino de línguas no Brasil. Entretanto, nos últimos quatorze anos, vivenciamos dois processos que mudaram os rumos do ensino de línguas, a oficialização e a desoficialização do ensino do espanhol na educação básica. Dessa forma, nosso objetivo é discutir a(s) política(s) linguística(s) que levaram à oficialização e desoficialização do ensino do espanhol, bem como compreender, a exemplo do Amapá, como se deu a implementação do ensino desta língua nas escolas da rede pública. Para tanto, valemo-nos de discussões teóricas de autores como Paraquett (2014, 2009), Rajagopalan (2016, 2014) e Lagares (2013). Assim, a partir dos dados que dispomos, é possível observar que a a falta de clareza da regulamentação estadual refletiu em uma dúbia interpretação pelas escolas da rede pública, o que possibilitou que o ensino do espanhol fosse utilizado inclusive para preenchimento de lacunas de horários. Além disso, cumprimento das políticas linguísticas está acima da preocupação com o processo de ensino-aprendizagem, uma vez que a formação de professores também deveria fazer parte planejamento linguístico.