Uma análise curricular do curso de Letras-Inglês da Universidade Federal da Paraíba: ênfase no eixo língua

Abstract

Our work is proposed to investigate the curricular organization of the Graduation Course in Letters, English qualification, from Universidade Federal da Paraíba, paying attention to three aspects: workload distribution, the relation language/linguistics/literature, contents foreseen on the syllabus of each discipline and theoretical and methodological proposition of the disciplines, directly related to the study of the language. For us to have analysis parameters we sought to compare our Course with the Graduation Course in Letters English from the country's most renowned university in the area, Universidade de São Paulo. The research is characterized as documental, of exploratory nature, with the main purpose of initiate and encourage discussions about the Graduation Course in Letters English that allows its improvement. Our study, starting from the orientations of the official documents of Brazilian Education for teacher formation, focused on the analysis of the pedagogical projects of the institutions' courses, including their curriculum frameworks, and on the course plans of the disciplines, especially the ones related directly to the language study itself. Our analyzes show: the pedagogic project of UFPB in transformation process brings in its curriculum framework a language view where the linguistics is separated from the textual production. In the case of the language course plans, we can observe a purpose aimed at the grammatical work, with the English language study focused on the textbook.