Estudo sobre o uso de língua materna e tradução no ensino de língua não-materna: um paralelo entre a visão de teóricos e professores de inglês

Abstract

The aim of this work is to contribute to the promotion of discussions around the use of the mother tongue and translation in the classroom, both at the academic level and by language professionals. Therefore, in this research I investigate how English teachers, native Portuguese speakers, share the position of pedagogical theories and practices throughout the history of language teaching, in relation to the use of mother tongue in the classroom, and translation for educational purposes. To this end, I make a parallel on this issue between two realities: on the one hand, theories of language teaching and of translation from classical antiquity to the present day, which also architect the theoretical framework of this work (KUMARAVADIVELU, 1994; CORRÊA, 2014; 2014b; OLIVEIRA, 2014; NORD, 2016), on the other, the perspective of professionals in the area, collected through a questionnaire available on several online platforms. The material from the questionnaires was analyzed based on the steps of the Content Analysis theory (BARDIN, 1977). Based on thematic axes present in the theoretical texts, systematic categories were created and applied to the responses of the teachers in search of excerpts that manifested the meeting points between the theoretical and practical points of view. Due to the extent of the material collected, conducting the analysis required the analytical generalization of the selected fragments, that is, the creation of categories that grouped several selections. These analytical categories were associated with the themes listed in the literature and thus understand at what point in the history of language teaching, the speeches of these teachers and the theoretical texts converge. The results point to support for the use of the mother tongue and translation due to a greater awareness of methodological choices that dialogue with the pedagogical context in which the classes take place.