PANORAMA HISTÓRICO DO PROGRAMA LINGUÍSTICO-CULTURAL PARA ESTUDANTES INTERNACIONAIS (PLEI): desafios enfrentados pelo projeto linguístico em busca de institucionalização e visibilidade acadêmica na UFPB

Abstract

This monograph aims to present the Linguistic-cultural Program for International Students (PLEI) project and its challenges in being made visible by the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB) and by the institution's Letters course. As specific objectives, this work aims to elucidate how the PLEI project has contributed to the development of Portuguese Additional Language (PLA) in our country and in the state of Paraíba. By expansion, the work intends to show the historical path and challenges of the process of consolidating the PLA in Brazil, which were also experienced, in parallel, by the PLEI. In this context, this research is justified in order to expose the erasure experienced by the project, aiming to change this scenario. To carry out this quantitative-qualitative research, we used different databases, owned by the Ministry of Education (MEC) to collect information. The analyzes and reflections constructed throughout this work were based on reference authors/researchers in the teaching of PLA, such as Almeida Filho (1999, 2017), Bulla (2020, 2021), Furtoso (2001), Leffa (2012) and Schlatter ( 2017, 2020). Therefore, as a result, it is expected that the PLEI project will be made visible by the Portuguese Letters course at UFPB and by the institution itself, in addition to the PLA area also being considered in the next reformulations of the Pedagogical Projects of the Degree in Letters Course of the institution, as well as the recognition of PLEI as a space for teaching practice to be experienced by undergraduate students.