Discursivizações sobre crenças no ensino e na aprendizagem de língua inglesa em artigos acadêmico-científicos

Abstract

This thesis has as its investigation object the writers‟comments about English language teaching and learning beliefs in scientific articles. Our research proposes the following research question: what is the discursive functioning that supports the writers‟ comments about beliefs and what are the sense effects resulting from such functioning? The guiding hypothesis of this work is that although the writers‟ comments intend to identify and / or analyze the informants‟ beliefs, which is indicted is that the writers end up authenticating the beliefs , which, in turn, could point to a possible constitution of these writers in the same beliefs. The overall aim of the thesis is to discuss the discursive aspects that show the functioning of the comments about English language teaching and learning beliefs in articles about beliefs theme. The theoretical concepts underlying our research come from French Discourse Analysis, especially from its second and third season, such as the conception of a parted subject, that is made up heterogeneously; discourse as sense effects and the approach of discourse as event; comment , representation , of interdiscourse; pre-built; enunciative heterogeneities. The corpus of the thesis is constituted of writers‟ comments about English language teaching and learning beliefs in academic and scientific articles. These articles were published in national journals of Language Education/Linguistics area and indexed with Qualis A or B from 2002 to 2013. The informants of the researches in the articles are: English language teachers, students in public Elementary and High schools, and students of Language courses, senior students and non-seniors, some of them were teaching, others not yet. The analysis of the corpus focuses the writers‟ analysis about informants‟ beliefs. This analysis is characterized as a descriptive and interpretive perspective, focusing on aspects such as: a) analysis of linguistic materiality b ) identification of the sense effects that come from the comments c ) discussion of the contradictions, ambiguities and non- coincidences of saying, resulting from discourse heterogeneity. We found that, in some comments, the writers are constituted by the same informants‟ beliefs in the research. In some comments, though, the analysis indicated a discursive functioning that is characterized as a circular discursivization of the beliefs, this discussion seems to revolve around itself and it does not promote displacements.