ABSTRACT
This article is about the use of the methodological procedure called selfconfrontation by researchers from Applied Linguistics especially by the scholars from the research group Language Analysis, Educational Work and their relationships/ALTER, which developed its activities from 2002 to 2012, under the leadership of the professor doctor Anna Rachel Machado from PUC-SP. The article shows a selfconfrontation, its origins, theoretical references, phases and movements that must be followed in the use of this procedure. Afterwards, the use of the selfconfrontation was examined and discussed through doctoral and masters' theses produced by ALTER context. Finally, the limitations of the procedure application identified in the group researches and their meaning left to Applied Linguistic and the Work Sciences are presented.
research methodology; applied linguistic; Clinic Activity