Reflexões sobre a resistência à prática docente de língua Inglesa no interior da Bahia

Abstract

This dissertation aims at investigating how two groups of teachers and future teachers of English evaluate their undergraduate courses: - Letters Portuguese and English, in 1997 and Letters - English in 2007, in a public university in the state of Bahia. It also tries to understand the reasons that contribute to these teachers rejection to work as teachers, specially, as English teachers. In order to support this investigation, I used as theoretical references: Celani (1996, 2000, 2004), Moita Lopes (1996, 2005), Almeida Filho (1993, 1999, 2007), Leffa (1999), Freire (1986, 1996), Prabhu (1990) and Freeman (1989, 2000). Questionnaires, interviews and the curricula of the two courseswere used as research instruments. This research has an ethnographic qualitative interpretative nature (Chizzotti (2006) and can be seen as a case study (Leffa, 2006) in which I want to understand the reasons why those teachers don t want to teach English. The results indicate that the frequent teachers replacement during the course, the students lack of interest in the course, the lack of information about the professional possibilities offered by the course, the low salary and the difficulties in dealing with new technologies, contributed to discouraging Letters students to want to become teachers. This led to changes in their academic education and suggested the need for continued teacher education