O que pode esta língua? Considerações sobre o ensino de português em cursos superiores do IFSP.

Abstract

This paper has the function of presenting the results of research on the teaching of the Portuguese language in higher education courses at the IFSP (Federal Institute of São Paulo) Campos do Jordão campus whose focus is not that of language studies. Through the qualitative analysis of the answers given by the students to four open questions, we observed the persistence of several biased concepts about what a Portuguese language class is and about the role of linguistic analysis in technology and undergraduate courses. Through the theories of Portuguese language teaching collected in Antunes (2003), Possenti (2006), Travaglia (2011), Bagno (2011) and Neves (2018) and bearing in mind the need for a dialogical teaching practice (FREIRE, 1981, 2008; BAKHTIN, 2003), we conclude pointing out that the best way to guarantee a democratic education is to pay attention to the needs of students, but without neglecting the theoretical needs to face the challenges of teaching in professional education.