A importância do contato prévio com alunos cegos e com baixa visão na formação docente dos alunos do curso de letras inglês da universidade federal da Paraíba.

Abstract

The present work deals with the importance of the previous contact of students of English letters of the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB) with blind and low vision students of the Institute of Blinds of Paraíba (ICP), considering that students with visual impairment are a reality within the regular schools, as guaranteed by the Law 7.853 of October of 1989. Within this process of contact with blind and low vision students, the Institute of Blinds of Paraíba plays a fundamental role, since it enables the teachers in training, not only the contact with these students, but also with adapted materials, aiming to teach them how to use such resources in favor of a better teaching of English language for blind and low vision students. This research is characterized as exploratory type, of qualitative-quantitative nature, seeking to analyze how has been the contact of the teachers in the course of English letters of the Federal University of Paraíba who trained at the Institute of Blinds of Paraíba with the blind and low vision students, and also how this previous contact has impacted the teacher training of them. In order to do so, a review of the literature on the subject was made, based on the Brazilian Legislation (Brazil, 1988, 1989, 2001, 2007), Dantas (2014), Fontana (2014) and Medrado (2014) texts, followed by the application of a questionnaire to training teachers and recent graduates of the UFPB English language course, who have been practicing at the ICP from 2016 to 2018. The results show how relevant this contact between teachers in the English letter course of the Federal University of Paraíba with blind and low vision students of the Institute of Blinds of Paraíba and how this experience impacted on their graduation.