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Item Acesso aberto (Open Access) Conhecimento técnico e atitude no ensino de língua portuguesa(2009-12) FAIRCHILD, Thomas MassaoContrary to the idea that the technical knowledge of the teacher of a native tongue serves primordially to the content of its teaching or to the planning of classes, this article discusses the precept that such knowledge should be seen as the basis for the creation of an attitude to be maintained in face-to-face interactions in the classroom. This attitude relates to the constant need to make decisions before the unexpected, and points to the construction of a specific discursive place for the language teacher - that of someone who listens to the student's words and enlaces them to his or her own words, so as to make sure that the assumption of the position of subject follows a reflection about the linguistic means available to such end. As an example to fuel this debate, the text describes the case of the unusual interpretation made by some students of the word "rataria" present in one of Monteiro Lobato's works. Some of the possible attitudes before this reading mistake are discussed, as well as their implications: to request a change in the answer, to modify the didactic material, to make explicit the linguistic work underlying the mistake, or to use the mistake as a pretext to other activities. The procedures discussed are based on the premise that mistakes and other unforeseen manifestations not only reveal procedures of construction of knowledge, but also offer important opportunities for the teacher to include him/herself into the student's word, being, therefore, a fundamental aspect in the construction of a relationship in which teaching becomes possible.Item Acesso aberto (Open Access) A constituição do dado em escritos sobre a prática de ensino de língua: análise discursiva de relatórios e artigos(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2016-12) FAIRCHILD, Thomas MassaoWe present partial results of a research project in which we discuss the function of writing in teachers' education. The general premise is that writing about a class may be an activity through which the teacher produces, to himself and to others, data that will allow him to keep working on the ideas and positions assumed by him when in class. In this paper we focus on two aspects of this research: the "polyphonic" analysis centered on unfurling the "voices" that make up a written discourse about the class, based on the ideas of O. Ducrot; and the questioning of what the configuration of the enunciate may show about the "empirical subject" responsible for it, diverging from Ducrot in favor of M. Bakhtin's ideas. Our data comprise two universes: texts written by Language Arts students during their in-school training and papers on the teaching of Portuguese published in academic journals. We point out three problems that are common to both kinds of data: a) the use of "weasel words" in the place of concrete information; b) the insertion of cited discourses as enunciates to which one answers instead of as data that one analyses; c) conclusions about the class that do not result from the data analysis that is shown. We synthesize our results by stating that, when it comes to discussing what goes on in the classroom, even though one might listen to the "voices" that come from there, such voices hardly receive any treatment as data and are responded to in different ways; the resulting discourse is thus inconsistent as far as an analysis of the class.Item Acesso aberto (Open Access) O professor no espelho: refletindo sobre a leitura de um relatório de estágio na graduação em letras(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2010) FAIRCHILD, Thomas MassaoIn this paper we defend that one of the main drawbacks in Portuguese first language teaching in Brazil is the teachers’ difficulty to sustain a specific discourse about their object of expertise, which in turn puts their professional status at stake. In order to revert this, we have been studying how a “professional teacher’s discourse” comes into being by analyzing pieces written by undergraduate students in Languages and Literature. We present here an analysis of an internship report based on the concept of “image” such as proposed by Pêcheux (1969). We discuss particularly writing procedures that favor the subject’s evading her own experience more than using it to build new knowledge. In this case, instead of using theoretical instruments, the subject clings to explanations that stand beside her object of analysis, moved by the need to conceal an image she sustains of herself as a teacher. The result is a construction that can hardly push towards any educational improvement, but rather preserves the layman character of her discourse.