Mapeamento da utilização dos gêneros textuais a partir da releitura de relatórios de estagiários de LEANI na ACI/UFPB

Abstract

This study maps the text genres mobilized in the multilingual communication of international academic cooperation, based on the performance of students of the Applied Foreign Languages for International Negotiations (LEANI) program during their supervised internships at the International Cooperation Agency (ACI) of the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB). Anchored in the perspective of Languages for Specific Purposes (LinFE) (Hutchinson; Waters, 1987; Rossini; Belmonte, 2015) and in the conception of genre as social action (Miller, 1984), the research carries out a qualitative documentary analysis, as well as a descriptive quantification (frequencies and percentages) of the empirical material collected. The 22 internship reports of the students who worked at the ACI/UFPB between 2023.1 and 2025.1 were analyzed. The mapping reveals a plurilingual repertoire, with a predominance of Spanish, English, and French, and a diversity of written, oral, and digital genres: institutional e-mails are the most recurrent genre, followed by cooperation agreements and drafts, in addition to news items, social media posts, interpreting, and mediation at events. Within this set, the legal-institutional dimension emerges as one of the axes requiring the greatest specialized expertise, without exhausting the scope of the activity. As a more critical finding, it was observed that interns frequently take on the technical translation of agreements and draft documents without specific training for this task, a tension that exposes the limits of the LEANI graduate's role in this field. The results are articulated with the program's curriculum, suggesting the strengthening of an approach based on genres and authentic documents that brings education closer to the real communicative demands of university internationalization.