Um mergulho no trabalho real de uma professora de Língua inglesa em formação por meio da auto-observação

Abstract

Clot ([1999] 2007), situated in the Labor Sciences, elaborates on teaching work as being formed by two natures, one visible and the other invisible, in which the former corresponds to everything that is possible to observe when watching the teacher's action in progress, for example, while the latter relates to all the teacher’s hindered and/or hidden work that allows the teacher to carry out (or not) classroom work, as for example, class planning and its reformulations during the lesson that allows the teacher to fulfill objectives. The teacher’s invisible work, represented by the image of an iceberg (MEDRADO, 2012), is often underestimated once it cannot be witnessed while it is executed. Thus, to understand teacher’s work in a deeper way, we need to better understand the invisible dimension of teaching work, the real work (CLOT, 2007; LOUSADA, 2004). In this context, through the notion of real work of Clinic of Activity (CLOT and FAITA, 2000) and the view of language as the generator of development, according to Sociodiscursive Interactionism (BRONCKART, 1999), we aim to investigate the work of a foreign language teacher in training (the researcher herself, it is worth saying) in order to perceive which aspects of the teacher's work appear during the self-observation of a filmed class at CODISMA-UFPB. Our corpus was generated through an adaptation of the simple selfconfrontation methodology (CLOT and FAITA, 2000) and was collected in a language cooperative in which the teacher works. Qualitative analysis of the data shows that the tensions of the teaching activity generated in the teacher an emotional impact. It also demonstrated that the real work of the teacher was revealed through language and, lastly, that self-observation generated reconstructions in the teacher's practice, for example, regarding the use of mother tongue in the classroom and in relation to the focus on the written language modality.