AS VISÕES DE LÍNGUA, SUJEITO E SALA DE AULA DE PROFESSORES DE LÍNGUA INGLESA

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to compare the views on language, subject, and classroom of English teachers who are graduated or nongraduated in Language Studies, in order to verify whether they have different views due to their different academic backgrounds. Approaches by Sausurre (1995), Bakhtin (2006), Charaudeau (2001), and Marcuschi (2008) were used. The results show that as the English teachers graduated in Language Studies see language as a social practice, shared by heterogeneous subjects interacting in the classroom, those who are not graduated in Language Studies adopt a structuralist view on language, with homogeneous subjects and the classroom as an environment for knowledge transmission.