DISCOURSES ON AND AROUND ENGLISH TEACHING

THE CASE OF A BRAZILIAN CURRICULUM

Authors

  • Gilberto Alves Araujo WITS; UFPA
  • Gizélia Maria da Silva Freitas UFPA

Abstract

This paper intends to explore discursive representations by a Curricular Proposal for English teaching from Northern Brazil. It considers not just the authors of the curriculum and representations of English teaching in high school but also the discursive roles played by teachers in that text. It also resorts to French Discourse Analysis and its concepts of forgetting subjection and ideological and discursive formation. The methodology is based on procedures by Orlandi. Preliminary results indicate that the state’s curriculum represents English teaching through a vast horizon of expectations regarding its relevance, validity, and everyday impact. The document tends to overvalue scientific-literary discourse while silencing teachers’ voices in/and their day-to-day praxis. The curriculum also tries to find in a capitalist economic system the reasons that might justify English teaching within a deeply rural and socioeconomically fragile region. The identities of the writers of the document seem to reveal themselves through several contradictions between entireness and dispersion.

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Author Biographies

Gilberto Alves Araujo, WITS; UFPA

PhD Candidate, School of Languges, Literature and Media, Department of Linguistics & Media Studies, The University of the Witwatersrand (WITS).

Professor Assistente, Departamento de Língua Inglesa, Faculdade de Letras, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA).

Gizélia Maria da Silva Freitas, UFPA

É professora da Universidade Federal do Pará, na área de Estudos Linguísticos; Graduada em Letras Português e Inglês, mestre em Letras, com ênfase em Linguística, pela UFPA (2012) e especialista em Estudos Linguístico e Análise Literária pela UEPA (2009). Atuou como Coordenadora do Curso de Graduação em Letras Língua Inglesa do campus universitário de Altamira (2018-2020) e vice-coordenadora do curso de pós-graduação lato sensu em Letras: linguagem e ensino, também no campus universitário de Altamira (2017-2019). Pesquisa sobre ensino e aprendizagem de inglês por crianças e formação de professores de línguas da região da Transamazônica-Xingu. 

Published

2024-08-09

How to Cite

ALVES ARAUJO, Gilberto; DA SILVA FREITAS, Gizélia Maria. DISCOURSES ON AND AROUND ENGLISH TEACHING: THE CASE OF A BRAZILIAN CURRICULUM. Revista de Letras, [S. l.], v. 2, n. 42, 2024. Disponível em: http://periodicos.ufc.br/revletras/article/view/92280. Acesso em: 16 aug. 2024.