O discurso do futuro professor de inglês na contemporaneidade: marcas e implicações em sua construção identitária

Abstract

The study on identity has been the subject of interest of national and international researchers due to its participation of a complex and interactive discussion that depends on how teachers see themselves and the image that others have about them from the assigning values which involve the teaching act (HALL, 1992). In the XXI century, the reality experienced is where the linguistic boundaries decrease and the hegemony of the English language prevails in many sectors of the everyday life of the modern subject. Thus, It is proposed the French Discourse Analysis (DA) based on Foucault's studies (1986) to enable the understanding of how the teacher is stated on the effects of globalization (BAUMAN, 2003) and the position of a common foreign language. Therefore, it is understood that there are "truth laws" linked to socio historical factors that lead to a speech with discursive formations that complement each other. So, the teacher is directed to follow a pattern where his identity is temporarily built as their training is signified by speech. In this context, it is relevant to address the discussion of teacher education process about to graduate in Language Arts, analyzing how his speech shows traces of the identity process developed during the years of study at the university. This analysis aimed to verify the effects of meaning in the discourse produced by the students of Language Arts course - English from the Federal University of Maranhão (Ufma) Dom Delgado Campus on the relationship between theory and practice in building their identities from direct contact with oral speech in semi-structured interviews. A qualitative research was conducted. In total, 20 subjects participated, in which 12 from the female sex and 8 from the male sex. The subjects' age range was between 22 and 41. The collecting instrument was semi-structured interview that was applied throughout a guide containing 19 questions. The results point out that their identities are constructed by a still lacking preparation of exposure to a foreign language, the fact that the investigated respondents participate in extension projects / programs as teachers provides them an opportunity to master their teaching abilities, the choice of being a teacher was based on the ability with the English language, and that graduation represents for them a possibility of a legitimized knowledge by the institutional power of the university.