O EFOPLI-UFPB e suas contribuições para a formação de professores de língua inglesa e alunos de Letras Inglês na Paraíba

Abstract

This study, bound to Applied Linguistics, had as objective to comprehend the impacts of the extension program for initial and continuing teacher development EFOPLI: Espaços para a Formação do Professor de Inglês, on English teachers in Paraiba, as well as on Letras students who are engaged in its works. For this purpose, we approached some official Brazilian documents which deal with teacher development, followed by the analysis of a qualitative based questionnaire applied in March 2018 with ten participants of the program to analyze the program’s impact regarding teacher development through their perceptions, experiences reports and opinions. For the analysis, we used the participants’ reports, relating them to the discussion of authors who deal with teacher development such as Almeida Filho (1997), Farrell & Richards (2005), Machado (2007), Landy (2010), Siqueira (2011), amongst others. The participants’ answers point to the necessity of teacher education spaces and they also called the attention to the fact that EFOPLI is a space which promotes reflection, critical thinking and the exchange of experiences, which demonstrates the commitment of the program to the teacher development process.