SUBJECTIVITY IN THE PRACTICES OF FEDERAL INSTITUTE ENGLISH TEACHERS AND THE PLACE OF THE HOST LANGUAGE
Teaching Practice; English Teaching; Subjective Representations; Federal Institute.
The objective of this research is to reflect on the images that are constructed by teachers of a federal institute of education, science and technology about English language (EL) teaching in professional education. Through the collected images, that I call representations, I analyze the effects of meaning that are displaced in the teaching-learning of the foreign language (FL) and/or the mother tongue (MT), considering the conditions of discourse production from the positions that are assumed by teachers. For this, I discuss some concepts from the Applied Linguistics (AL) and Franco-Brazilian Discourse Analysis, in interface with Lacanian Psychoanalysis, through an interweaving between the teacher's discourse about the language taught, his learning of that language, their pedagogical practice and their sayings about the practice. As a theoretical interface to reflect on representations, we turn to Cultural Studies dealing with a non-fixed, fragmented, unfinished identity (Woodward, 2000; Hall, 2000), which can be modified depending on the need and the moment, since it, the identity, is always in a constant process of (re)construction. Thus, we seek to investigate, interpret and analyze the representations that arise in the subjectivation process of EL teachers, in order to capture moments of identification (Nasio, 1995; Neves, 2002; Coracini, 2003, 2007). This research is of a qualitative-interpretative nature and its corpus was formed through testimonials from teachers about their teaching practice and their learning of LI. To capture the images built around these languages, we used, as categories of analysis, the heterogeneity shown (Authier, 1998, 2004) and the discursive resonances (Serrani-Infanti, [1998] 2007), the said and the unsaid ( Orlandi, 2004). The analyzed excerpts were based mainly on studies by Coracini (1981, 1995, 2000, 2003, 2007), Lacan (1958, 1960, 1966), Loures (2007, 2011, 2014), Neves (2002, 2006, 2008, 2009), Pêcheux ([1975] 1988), Orlandi ([1999] 2009) among others.