“Então, você vê que o aluno vem pra escola sem vontade de nada, sem perspectiva de nada”: o ensino do ELE e a construção das identidades dos alunos

Abstract

This study is based on the liquid nature of postmodern society (BAUMAN, 2013) and the third generation lived by humanity that provides socio-cultural diversity (COPE; KALANTZIS, 2006), in which culture is understood as the "webs of significance" that the man constructs in the relationships he establishes (GEERTZ, 2008), as well as identities come to be understood as multiple, changeable and socially negotiated and constructed (MASTRELLA-DE-ANDRADE, 2013). This happens because it is in the language that the subjects relate and interact through the use of the language (RAJAGOPALAN, 2009). In this way, the present work aims to discuss how culture is approachead in the classes of Spanish as a foreign language (SFL) in schools of the public network in the southeast region of the State of Amapá, since we understand that only through a language teaching guided by an intercultural perspective or education is that students will be taught to (inter)act as 'citizens of the world', being aware and ensuring that there is equality in diversity and that diversity is equally assisted (CANDAU, 2008). However, such a discussion would not be possible if we did not contextualize the processes of officialization and deprivation of education in Spanish in Brazil. Besides that, we believe that such conceptions of language, culture and identities will guide language teaching if teacher training is critical-reflexive. Finally, from the data we have, we understand that students go to school "without any desire for anything, with no perspective on anything" because they are not allowed to negotiate meanings and (re)construct their identities.