O trabalho do professor de Inglês em curso livre: na tessitura das prescrições

Abstract

Based on a free course of foreign languages which is part of a franchising system, this study aims at characterizing the work which is assigned to the teachers of this course, mainly concerned to the “teacher training”. The theoretical bases for this investigation are found, principally, in the studies developed in the framework of the Socio-discursive Interactionism (ISD) as presented by Bronckart (1999, 2006, 2008). The choice of the Socio-discursive Interactionism as the theoretical-methodological framework was made due to the wish of studying the work which is assigned to the teachers taking into account that teaching is also a job. By this we mean the necessity of going beyond the researches about teaching which are developed in the area of language didactics. It is in the ISD framework also that we find the coherence to deal with the data. From this data, however, the necessity of looking at another framework emerged. These are the studies accomplished in the field of teaching and learning a foreign language, which we sought in order to understand the métier. The data was conceived within the context of free course of foreign languages, in which the origins of the assigned work were found. Once the “teacher training” was identified as the principal of them, we sought to understand it through the interview with the pedagogic director, responsible for “training” the teachers. The analysis of the data was done based on the results obtained by Bronckart and widely discussed and expanded by members of ISD group (BRONCKART, 2008; BRONCKART e MACHADO, 2004; ABREU-TARDELLI, 2006; GUIMARÃES, 2007). Linguistic elements found in the data supported our analysis, which, beyond characterizing the teacher training, tried to realize the way this assigned work is conveyed and the role given to the teachers in the context investigated. The results reaffirm the complexity of the educational work. They also reveal the position of the pedagogic director concerning the work which he himself assigns to the teachers and turn visible the way the director represents the teaching acting. Such elements indicate the implications of this assigned texture in the real work of the teachers of the course investigated.