As constituições de ethos e os discursos envolventes no ensino de língua portuguesa em contexto de pesquisa-ação.

Abstract

Based on Applied Linguistics, this study aims at pointing evidences of Involving Discourses that surround subjects and that, at the same time, constitute them and aims at interpreting the positionings of Ethos, taken in classroom contexts. In order to do that, a qualitative ethnographic research is carried out, with planned and developed actions within an action-research methodology. The subjects involved in the research are three teachers, who were differently connected to the Universidade Federal de Alagoas (UFAL), and students from communities of Jaraguá (a neighborhood of Maceió/Alagoas). The classes, taught by the three teachers, concerns Textual Production in Portuguese language as a mother tongue. It is noticed, in the study carried out, that the Involving Discourses define the positionings taken through beliefs, values, stereotyped expectations, and other elements that, dialogically, organize human relations in a way that constraints actions of greater relative autonomy of the subjects. It is also possible to notice, from the analysis of the linguistic-discursive actions of the subjects, at least three constitutions of Ethos: the Said, the Constituted and the Speculated/Reflected. It is concluded that, in order to have a classroom teaching practice that motivates both students and teachers towards a social/contextual language practice, it is necessary that activities of denaturalization of Involving Discourses and problematization of the objectives that guide the teaching and learning of Portuguese exist.