Pre-service Languages and Literature Education: an overview of the studies considering the teacher educator's perspective

This paper aims at presenting an overview of the studies on the pre-service English Languages and Literature education in Brazil that have raised data involving and giving a voice to the university professor from 1987 to 2012. In order to achieve the goal, a bibliographical research was conducted at CAPES database on theses and dissertations using keywords related to this subject. The results pointed out to the institutions and areas where research about this topic was conducted, the period of growth in the number of studies, the specific field of work of the educators investigated and the different instruments used for data generation. We expect not only to inform about conducted studies on the university professor, but also to allow the identification of gaps on this theme.

university professor; initial English language teacher education; bibliographical research