Ideologias de linguagem na formação de professores: uma etnografia com estudantes guineenses de letras-língua portuguesa no Brasil
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description: This study investigates the language ideologies articulated in the discourse of Guinean students undergoing professional training in Portuguese language education in Brazil, specifically in São Francisco do Conde, Bahia. It examines how these ideologies are constructed, negotiated, and co-produced based on the values attributed to language use in the situated practices of these students. The discussion is situated within the field of Applied Linguistics and draws upon critical sociolinguistic perspectives that explore the relationship between language and the globalized political economy (Heller, 2010; Heller & Duchenne, 2012; Garcez & Jung, 2021). The research adopts a language ethnography approach (Garcez & Schulz, 2015; Lucena, 2015; Jung & Silva, 2021), which involved participant observation, field notes, document analysis, and interviews conducted within the research context. For data analysis, a triangulation of the information generated during each research stage was employed to identify convergences and divergences in how the participants’ discourses and actions reproduced and produced underlying language ideologies. The data reveal that standardized Portuguese is perceived by the participants as a privileged language in language studies in Guinea-Bissau. However, the ideological structuring that attempts to standardize communicative resources has not erased the traces of local languages present in the communicative practices of these future Portuguese language teachers studying in Brazil. As expressed in their discourse, linguistic production in the multilingual context of Guinea-Bissau results from the variation of Portuguese and the country’s broader social reality. In light of this, participants express dissatisfaction with the language policies of the Guinean nation-state, which do not legitimize the local variety of Portuguese that encompasses the linguistic and cultural richness embedded in their people's communicative practices. In opposition to the …
abstract: This study investigates the language ideologies articulated in the discourse of Guinean students undergoing professional training in Portuguese language education in Brazil, specifically in São Francisco do Conde, Bahia. It examines how these ideologies are constructed, negotiated, and co-produced based on the values attributed to language use in the situated practices of these students. The discussion is situated within the field of Applied Linguistics and draws upon critical sociolinguistic perspectives that explore the relationship between language and the globalized political economy (Heller, 2010; Heller & Duchenne, 2012; Garcez & Jung, 2021). The research adopts a language ethnography approach (Garcez & Schulz, 2015; Lucena, 2015; Jung & Silva, 2021), which involved participant observation, field notes, document analysis, and interviews conducted within the research context. For data analysis, a triangulation of the information generated during each research stage was employed to identify convergences and divergences in how the participants’ discourses and actions reproduced and produced underlying language ideologies. The data reveal that standardized Portuguese is perceived by the participants as a privileged language in language studies in Guinea-Bissau. However, the ideological structuring that attempts to standardize communicative resources has not erased the traces of local languages present in the communicative practices of these future Portuguese language teachers studying in Brazil. As expressed in their discourse, linguistic production in the multilingual context of Guinea-Bissau results from the variation of Portuguese and the country’s broader social reality. In light of this, participants express dissatisfaction with the language policies of the Guinean nation-state, which do not legitimize the local variety of Portuguese that encompasses the linguistic and cultural richness embedded in their people's communicative practices. In opposition to the …
author: Tchuda, Pefna Luis
language: por
keywords: Sociolinguística, Língua portuguesa - Ensino e aprendizagem, Formação docente, Estudantes estrangeiros - Brasil, Estudantes guineenses - Brasil
date published: 2025-04-30
date modified: 2026-07-27T22:08:00Z
provider: Brazil UFBA
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: Universidade Federal da Bahia