Conceptions of language in school: Ideological and paradigmatic clashes

Abstract

This text synthesizes a qualitative research, produced from the Research Project: "The Conception of Language in School: ideological and paradigmatic clashes" and the "Study Group: Language and Ideologies: to think about Interdisciplinarity and Literacies - GELI", developed from 2019 to 2021, within the scope of the State University of Goiás – UEG, whose objective was to investigate the conceptions of language of students of this university and teachers who work in the basic education network of Iporá and surrounding municipalities, participants in the study, with a focus on changing paradigms in language studies. Eighteen students and twelve professors participated in the study. Based on observations of classes and questionnaires answered, the study data were produced, which were transcribed and analyzed, and are presented here, in the form of a synthesis, as research results. This text responds to the five specific objectives of the study and its general objective. In summary, the participants are divided regarding the idea of language as a school object: some still linked to the notion of language teaching as teaching grammar or grammatical nomenclature; others attuned to a perspective of language in its inherent complexity, as an interface of the social life of its users. The research demonstrates that the conceptions of language expressed by the participants reveal respect for the subjectivities and identities of the students of the basic school, understanding them in their interactions and real ways of life. The language practices of the participants act in the space of contradiction, in relation to the impositions of the system.

DOI:https://doi.org/10.56238/sevened2024.018-030