Abordagem ideológica da representação social de professores universitários sobre a formação de docentes de E/LE

Abstract

This research has the objective of analyzing the social representation (SR) that university teachers from a Ceará public university make around the docent formation of Spanish as Foreign Language (SFL) teachers. Its focus is the ideological constitution of such representation evidenced on the linguistics structures of the discourse. To the consecution of the objective, we have based our considerations in one articulation among Social Representation Theory, particularly the observations of Moscovici (1978, 2009), Doise (1992), Jodelet (2001) and Harré (2001); the Social Critic Study of the Discourse proposed by van Dijk (2003, 2008a), and, yet, the Applied Linguistic, from the works of Moita Lopes (1996) and Almeida Filho (2011). The data base has been generated by the application of free association of words and lexical items hierarchization techniques; by open questions questionnaires and semi-structured interviews. To proceed the analysis of the data, we have employed the purposes of Harré (2001) who suggests the lexicon as a vector of the SR and Critical Analysis of Discourse, in a ideological focus, as suggested by van Dijk (2003, 2008a), within of your Social Critic Study of the Discourse. The category we used was the “Discourse Meaning”, specified in the subcategory of the recurrent “Themes” in the text and speech of the participants. The analyses have evidenced that the subjects conceive the formation in two directions: 1. The docent formation means to develop in the students the knowledge of formal linguistics aspects and, 2. Teachers formation is equivalent to the development, in the students, of the knowledge of didactic and language teaching methodology. Although the first representation is the most salient one, once its linguistics elements were more recurrent pointing into its centrality in the figurative core. Regarding the ideology which underlies this comprehension, it has been evidenced that the teachers share a progressive vision of education, that, as asserts Mascia (1999), intends to transpose the subject from an ignorant situation to the wisdom, modifying not only his individuality, but his social environment as well. The teacher’s speech has stressed, yet, a post-modernist vision. This understanding has revealed, equally, a marketing vision of the formation, according to what the period of the university is comprehended as the preparation to the professional labor performance. It has been evidenced, as well, a discourse marked by the power structures, as proposed by van Dijk (2008a), according to what the dominant groups (university teachers) aim to legitimize coercively its position as the prevailing one, before the dominated groups (students); so that reproduces its SR as legitimated set, as truth valor. The study offers, finally, elements to reflect alternatives and paths to eventual transformations of the SFL docent formation practices, besides it contributes to studies that investigate the relation among ideology, discourse ant social representation, as those components affect each other mutually.