Linguistic strategies in the construction of identity and representations about the teaching profession: contributions of the Supervised Internship in the area of Letters.
Identity; Social Representations; Teachers’ Formation; Supervised Internship.
This study aims to investigate the construction of future Portuguese teachers’ professional identities, as well as their relationship with the Social Representations that emerge from this construction in the discourse of undergraduate students from Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais – UEMG – located in Divinópolis / MG, who filled in internship reports and answered questionnaires based on their practices. For that purpose, I refer to Bakhtin's (1999) studies on language, polyphony, discourse, voice management; to Mondada and Dubois (2003) and Koch (2003), who deal with referencing and the enunciative mechanisms; also to Hall (2006), Woodward (2000) and Bauman (2004), that discuss the issue of identity; Moscovici (2003), who deals with Social Representations; Matencio (2004) and Kleiman and Martins (2007) among others, that reflect upon linguistics and teacher education. In addition, this research discusses the articulation between theory and practice, departing from theoretical positions about teacher education, defended by authors such as Freire (1999), Nóvoa (2009), Tardif (2014), among others. The construction of the interlocutive game in reports and questionnaires is analyzed, taking into account the assumption of social, communicative and personal roles and the delimitation of the discursive purpose(s), identifying and analytically describing the enunciative mechanisms and their effects on the discursive plots’ composition present in the internship reports. In addition, the Social Representations about the teachers' conceptions taken from the Supervised Internship is identified through recurrences of linguistic aspects. Also, the construction of the representations observed in the students' discourses materialized in the reports and questionnaires is describes and analyzed. The results obtained in the research may contribute to provide me, as a researcher, and also other interested professionals, subsidies that may guide our teaching-learning activities aimed at educating undergraduate language students. Besides, they may contribute to the reflection upon the importance of Supervised Internship in the process of building Portuguese teachers’ identities and representations about their profession.