Although most of the studies in the field of teacher education advocate that the practicum is the main source for the acquisition of the knowledge and skills required by good teachers (Richards e Crookes, 1988;Pimenta, 1997;Kulcsar, 1998;Piconez, 1998), research adopting a socialization framework questions the full impact of this stage of professional development. The study reported here intended to investigate the impact of the practicum, according to EFL student teachers´ own perspectives. They were enrolled in a university teacher education course in Brazil, through which they were exposed to new educational experiences aimed at contributing to better informed pedagogical practices and to the development of the knowledge base necessary for conscious professional work. Using semi-structured interviews and observation reports as the main source of data, the analysis revealed that although the informants acknowledged the importance of the teaching practice experiences, there were limitations of their influence on developing the process of learning to teaching within a critical reflection mode (Tabachnick e Zeichener, 1991). The study also revealed that the student teachers were at elementary stages of professional development, according to Furlong & Maynard´s (1995) classification.A Prática do Ensino de Inglês (PEI) é uma das disciplinas que compõem o currículo do último ano dos alunos de Letras Anglo de uma universidade pública no norte do Paraná. Durante esse período, os futuros professores são expostos a novas experiências educacionais que pretendem contribuir para uma prática pedagógica informada e desenvolver bases analíticas para o trabalho profissional consciente. Embora boa parte dos estudos nessa área assegurem que a experiência do estágio é a principal fonte para a aquisição de conhecimento e habilidades essenciais ao bom professor (Richards e Crookes, 1988;Pimenta, 1997;Kulcsar, 1998;Piconez, 1998), estudos que se fundamentam na perspectiva da socialização questionam o impacto da prática de ensino no processo de aprender a ensinar de maneira informada (Lortie, 1975; Feiman-Nemser e Buchmann, 1989;Freeman, 1992). Nesse sentido, o relato apresentado busca discutir o impacto desse componente na formação dos alunos de Letras, segundo suas próprias perspectivas. Para tanto, procedemos a análise de entrevistas semi-estruturadas, bem como de relatórios dos estágios. Os resultados apontam que, embora os futuros professores enalteçam esse componente curricular, há limitações do impacto da PEI sobre o processo de aprender a ensinar
A case study analysing the socialization of a student-teacher of English language is presented. Based on data stemming from a questionnaire, an autobiographical report, a class obsetvation report, two tape-recorded supetvision sessions, and one semi-structured intetview, the case shows the use of a social strategy by the studentteacher as a way to sutvive the practicum supetvision provided at the university. By identifying the student-teacher's beliefs, we found that because biography is central to the socialization process, it is necessary to reconsider other ways to achieve the goals of the established teacher education curriculum.
In order to attempt to bring language learning practices closer to students’ daily lives, studies regarding Social Activity (Liberali, 2009), under the Social Historical Activity Theory (Engestrom, 1999) have been gaining space in current research (Larré, 2018; Silva, 2017; Zanella, 2017). Accordingly, as an emerging necessity from the context here described and from our society in general, environmental education became necessary, along with interdisciplinary practices, as stated in Brazil’s official curriculum guidelines. In addition, in the 21st century, with the advances of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), the Pedagogy of Multiliteracies (Cope & Kalantzis, 2001) has become even more relevant in education, being it due to communication, social media, video, and images, for example. In light of this, the objective of this research paper is to analyze the outcome of an environmentally focused pedagogical intervention under a multimodal approach, developed during an internship program in a state school. After being in contact with planetary awareness in English language lessons, students customized ecobags alongside the Arts teacher, in an interdisciplinary way. Students’ productions were analyzed taking into account their multimodal choices when making meaning out of different semiotic modes, and to what extent learning de-encapsulation happened in this process. Results indicate that students were able to achieve synesthesia in their multimodal productions, combining linguistic, visual, spatial and gestural modes. Furthermore, learning de-encapsulation occurred as students made use of the environmental knowledge they acquired in English classes, not only by crossing boundaries inside the school, but also outside its walls.
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