Fios da trama: formações imaginárias sobre língua inglesa em narrativas de sujeitos-professores

Abstract

This work has as a goal to analyze the imaginary formations about English language in narratives of English Foreign Language-teachers (EFL). As a theoretical place, we are positioned in a discursive perspective which constitutes an interface area between the completeness and incompleteness, working with the notion of subject split, cleaved and barred by language. The file of this research consists of five interviews, semi-structured, audio-recorded, with EFL teachers graduated in Language and teachers in Elementary Education I, II and High School, residents in the area covered by UFFS, Campus Chapecó - SC. From the file, we selected discursive cutouts in which are formulated in sustained senses of English imaginary formations. The research questions those guided our analysis were: (a) What imaginary formations of English language emerge in narratives of Brazilian teachers of that language; and (b) From imaginary formations that emerge in the narratives that place is given to the English language in school? We understand that imaginary formations of the English language are constituted by traits those point to disruptions and tensions because beyond the purely linguistic level, to involve identity, historical, social, political and educational aspects. The imaginary formations on English language underpinning the narratives point to the relationship between, the border of the/in the English. From analysis, we understand that emerge in the corpus of our work two dominant imaginaries, which we named "Imaginary boundary between the English / worldwide and / in school" and "Imaginary English Language Shifting Effect: Professional and Personal EFL teacher.” Resonate in these imaginaries that support the narratives the border relationship, covering inset and movência (shift), as well as the deletion of this relationship, conforming senses inscribed in the historical process of English language education in Brazil, in teacher education, educational policies in effect for the teaching and learning of LI and already-said that resonate on the English language in society.