Resumo em Inglês:

Teacher identity and practice have been characterized as being inextricably linked, highlighting the need for L2 teacher educators to support the development of novice teacher identity and the practices that align with it. Informed by a sociocultural perspective on teacher learning (Johnson, 2009), this study traces the development of the identity of a novice teacher as he grapples with a tension while teaching an advanced grammar class. By conducting a narrative inquiry (Johnson & Golombek, 2002), he identified a contradiction between his identity-in-activity (Cross, 2006), expressed through the image of the 'grammar inquisitor' teaching to the test and the communication-focused instructor he aspired to be. His narrative inquiry created a mediational space in which he could 'play' with images, as well as academic concepts that had been introduced in a graduate course on genre-based instruction, and 'imagine' a more satisfying identity-in-activity, expressed as 'synergy' in a curriculum unit he designed for his grammar class.

Resumo em Português:

Nesse artigo, objetivamos analisar a produção de blogs profissionais de alunas-professoras e os papéis que tais práticas digitais de linguagem podem desempenhar na educação de professores de línguas reflexivos e críticos. Especificamente, analisamos as postagens de blogs que duas alunas-professoras produziram e as identidades profissionais que são forjadas a partir dessa prática digital de linguagem. O estudo relatado é qualitativo, interpretativista e se configura como um estudo de caso. Os dados, as postagens das alunas-professoras em seus blogs e relatos de experiência sobre a prática pedagógica que originou as postagens, foram gerados em 2010 em uma disciplina optativa de um curso de Letras-Inglês de uma universidade estadual do norte do Paraná. Os resultados evidenciam a emergência de conflitos identitários por parte das alunas-professoras a partir de seu engajamento na produção de práticas digitais de linguagem. Esses conflitos se configuraram como um impulso para (re)constituição identitária dessas futuras profissionais da língua inglesa.

Resumo em Inglês:

In this paper, we aim to analyze the production of professional blogs by pre-service English teachers and the roles that such digital language practices may perform in the education of reflexive and critical language teachers. Specifically, we analyzed the blog posts that two pre-service teachers produced and the professional identities that are forged in such a digital language practice. The reported case study is of qualitative and interpretative nature. The data, composed by the pre-service English teachers' blog posts and their experiential narratives regarding the pedagogical practice they experienced, were generated in 2010 in an elective unit in a state university of the north of Paraná. The results demonstrate the emergence of identity conflicts due to the engagement of the pre-service English teachers in the production of digital language practices. These conflicts have generated an impulse towards the reconstruction of the identities of these future English language professionals.

Resumo em Português:

O Programa Inglês sem Fronteiras (agora Idiomas sem Fronteiras - IsF) é uma política pública que foi primeiramente pensada para oferecer cursos de inglês de modo a capacitar os estudantes elegíveis ao Ciência sem Fronteiras a estudarem em universidades estrangeiras. Entretanto, na prática, há um número de outras implicações, ou efeitos, que são visíveis para todos os seus participantes, sendo a formação de professores de língua inglesa umas das principais, pois grande parte dos professores bolsistas do Programa são alunos de licenciatura em Letras. Neste artigo, enfocamos o Núcleo de Língua Inglesa (NucLi) do IsF-UFRGS, do qual 12 professores foram submetidos a um questionário online feito através do Google Forms. Os dados, embora preliminares, mostram que o IsF apresenta-se como um palco para o desenvolvimento de professores com o potencial de integrar reflexão teórica e prática a partir de experiências concretas vivenciadas no trabalho docente.

Resumo em Inglês:

The English without Borders Program (now Languages without Borders) is a public policy first thought to offer English courses in order to enable Science without Borders eligible students to study in universities abroad. However, in practice, there are a number of other implications or effects, which are visible to all participants, being teachers' development one of them, since most of the teachers are undergraduate students pursuing a teaching degree in English. In this paper, we focus on the Language Center at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, where 12 teachers underwent an online survey through Google Forms. The data, albeit integral to a preliminary study, show that the ISF can be regarded as an important stage for teachers' education integrating theory and practice based on concrete experiences.

Resumo em Português:

A partir do conceito de recontextualização pedagógica de Bernstein (1990, 2000), neste artigo analisamos representações sobre a formação continuada empreendida no Programa de Desenvolvimento Educacional do estado do Paraná - PDE-PR, em formato híbrido, que busca articular teoria/prática, ao aproximar o professor da escola do modo de produção de conhecimento na universidade. Dois conjuntos de dados foram considerados: 1) transcrição de audiogravação de grupo focal do qual participaram formadores responsáveis por atividades no referido programa; 2) narrativa retrospectiva de um professor da escola pública, coautor deste artigo e ex-participante do programa. As representações dos formadores sobre pressupostos e princípios político-pedagógicos do programa evidenciaram regras distributivas e recontextualizadoras que contribuíram para a reprodução do discurso oficial. A narrativa do professor, por sua vez, salienta aspectos positivos que resultaram em oportunidade de aprendizagem para si. As regras distributivas governantes da formação continuada e, posteriormente, da organização curricular, incidiram sobre a recontextualização pedagógica na escola, fazendo com que os conhecimentos acadêmicos sofressem transformação.

Resumo em Inglês:

Bernstein's (1990, 2000) theory of pedagogic device is adopted as a theoretical framework for the analysis of representations of an in-service teacher education program as part of a public policy in Brazil. The program has a hybrid format and seeks to integrate theory and practice, by bringing the schoolteacher and his/her practical knowledge closer to the epistemology predominant in the university. Two sets of data were generated: 1) transcripts of the audiorecording of a focus group attended by teacher educators responsible for supervision and teaching activities within the Program; 2) a retrospective narrative of a public school teacher, co-author of this article and former participant of the Program. The representations of trainers on political-pedagogical assumptions and principles of the program showed distributive and recontextualizing rules that contributed to the reproduction of the official discourse. The teacher's narrative, in turn, stresses positive aspects that resulted in learning opportunity for himself. The distributive rules of continuing education and, later, of the curricular organization, governed the pedagogical recontextualization in the school, resulting in transformations of academic knowledge.

Resumo em Inglês:

With the understanding that teacher cognition itself is ever-emergent, originating and framed by engagement with social activities (Johnson & Golombek, 2011), the current study examines one expert English as a Second Language (ESL) teacher's micro-analysis of her classroom practices when addressing learner inquiries in-the-moment, and how such analysis leads the teacher to alter her conscious awareness of what it means to teach language even at an advanced point in her career. Bridging the methodologies of conversation analysis and ethnographic analysis, two distinct practices were used by the teacher when addressing learner inquiries: doing answering and modeling exploration. Each practice is detailed with a focus on their varied constructions and the specific verbal and nonverbal communicative cues found to influence their uses. Numerous and simultaneous factors are shown to affect the teacher's management of learner inquiries, factors both paralleling and contradicting her perceptions of teaching. The paper concludes with a discussion on how the findings not only connect to the current teacher cognition literature but also advocates for opening up the methodological tools used in SLTE to more fully understand teacher learning.

Resumo em Inglês:

In order for teacher educators to prepare teachers for complexities of language teaching, their nature needs to be understood. Vygotskian sociocultural theory offers a useful framework for construing such complexities. Vygotsky distinguished between everyday and scientific concepts, and saw the interaction of the two as conceptual thinking, the basis for higher order cognitive skills. Johnson (2009) frames learning to teach as the development of conceptual thinking and considers the nature of the dialogue in teacher education activities as crucial to this development. Drawing on longitudinal data from a semester-long case study of the dialogic interactions between a teacher and teacher educator, this study illustrates how the teacher educator modeled conceptual thinking in her language. We propose a taxonomy of conceptualizations about language teaching that may help teacher educators be more purposeful in designing activities for and interacting with novice teachers.

Resumo em Inglês:

Research on the unique nature of teachers' subject matter knowledge and how this knowledge interacts with other domains of the knowledge base for teaching has been an extremely productive field of inquiry since the mid 1980's. In particular, Shulman's (1987) construct of pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) has been taken up by researchers to describe the subject specific knowledge of teachers in a variety of disciplines. Yet while this concept has been widely applied to describe expert teachers' knowledge, much less research has examined how PCK develops in and through teaching practice. To address this need, the present study examines how one teacher's understanding of a pedagogical genre developed through her first semester of teaching a post-secondary second language (L2) writing class. Drawing on a sociocultural theoretical (SCT) perspective, this study traces the development of a single subject matter concept, points of analysis, as it emerges in teaching activity, is mediated by the teacher's interactions with her students and the researcher, and is eventually incorporated into her knowledge of the analytic essay genre and how to teach it.

Resumo em Inglês:

This paper discusses how teaching material design can contribute to educate EFL teachers to consider their prospective students' profiles. This professional activity requires the student teachers to take a set of decisions, make choices and explain the reasons for them. The described practices in teacher education are carried out at a public university in the southeast of Brazil, and Larsen-Freeman's (1983) assertion that teaching is about making choices, which should be informed, is closely considered. The author describes three different contexts of practice and presents student teacher considerations about the experiences. There are challenges and gains in the process of teaching/learning how to design ELT materials, but as has been pointed out by the participants involved in this practice the gains are worth the challenges.