Motivações dos graduandos em Letras – Português da UFPB: um estudo exploratório

Abstract

The type of degree and training in lyrics cause the student and future teacher engaged in multiple roles based on ethics and humanistic principles, due to the construction and reconstruction of knowledge, creating opportunities for reflection. The overall goal of this work is to analyze the motivational perspective as teacher training of undergraduate Course Letters / Portuguese to become a primary school teacher. To go this route, our specific objectives are: 1) verify that the student of letters-Portuguese is motivated, 2) identify the prevalence between intrinsic and extrinsic motives that lead students to want to be a teacher of Portuguese, and 3 ) analyze and supervised graduate in Literature based on national laws and resolutions, institutional and PPP (Political Pedagogical Project) Letter UFPB. The research will be used bibliographic and field, this being the halls of disciplines Supervised, where we will apply a 24 questionnaires with students in the undergraduate program of Arts, major in Portuguese, who are enrolled in Stages 1 and Supervised 6 semester 2012.2. The data analysis allowed us to conclude that these students are motivated and have the intrinsic motivation as predominant motivating factor. Moreover, refute our hypothesis that there is a low rate of demotivation these students. We emphasize, though, the more thorough investigation as to the motivational aspect of the student who is at that stage of the degree course in order to check their experiences and expectations regarding the current and future teaching of Portuguese as well, when evaluating necessary, can to develop motivational strategies specifically for this audience in order to contribute to their personal performance, academic and professional.