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A critical, decolonial glance at language teacher education in Brazil: on being prepared to teach

Year: 2019

Type: article

Abstract: ABSTRACT The decolonial accounts made by a student teacher motivated us to problematize discourses about the “unpreparedness to teach languages at schools”, recurrent in the area of language teacher education in Brazil, and confront them with accounts of other student teachers and of applied linguistics, poststructuralist and decolonial scholars. In this interpretive study, discussions on the themes language, the subject and teaching, coming from the empirical material, led us to a perspective of teacher education as an “impossible but necessary project” (LOPES; BORGES, 2015) and to the need to educate language teachers “to talk” (SKLIAR, 2006), in view of the great complexity of teaching contexts.

Source: DELTA Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada

DOI: 10.1590/1678-460x2019350306

Authors: Mariana R. Mastrella-de-Andrade, Rosane Rocha Pessoa

Institutions: Universidade de Brasília, Universidade Federal de Goiás

Language: English

Topic: EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W2962886578