Os letramentos do professor de língua materna e a formação continuada

Abstract

The present research has the aim to analyse and argue about the conceptions of Portuguese language teachers´ reading mobilized inthe reading activities at the in-service teacher education course intitled “Teacher´s literacy: livings on reading and writing in Portuguese Languageconducted at Mato Grosso´s Federal University”, in the campus of Cuiabá. For such purpose, we analysed the utterances produced and circulated by the teachers attendants of the course as social and historical constituted subjects of discourses. The research methodology of data analysis is qualitative approachin the light of Bakhtin and the Circle´s enunciative-discoursive use of language perspective ([1952-53], 2010); ([1929], 2012), and Lev Vygotsky`s social-historical teaching and learning theoretical framework(2007[1930]). To analyse the data collected atthe questionnaires applied at the course attendants, it grounds upon the assumptions in Bauer and Gaskell quantitative methodology (2012), and it also relies on Bogdan and Biklen´s qualitative research approach (1994). The primary purpose of continuing professional education course for teachers is to help the educator to contextually situate their practices in the school domain but also in the Portuguese language lessons with students. In the scope of the course, it has presented moments of living experiences in reading, writing and rewriting, focused on diversified texts in various speech genres that circulate in different discursive spheres. We found that the various continuing teaching education courses for public school teachers are not effectively contributing to changes in their teaching practice of reading and writing in the classroom. Therefore, we confirmed our hypothesis that the practices of literacies which the teachers mobilize in teaching reading activities may be more closely related to a problem of professional culture than a matter of knowledge areas. Finally, we highlight that short in-lenght courses of 60 hours are not enough to remedy these problems, only to detect and raise a few more questions. Therefore, we believe that the training process must be continuous and assisted by more than one school year in order that can promote significant changes in the activities and practices of teaching reading in a formation perspective of critical.