Formação inicial e o processo de ensino e aprendizagem do português como L2 para surdos: o discurso dos licenciandos surdos

This work, based on an exploratory research with a qualitative approach, aims to analyze the discourse of Deaf undergraduate students from the integrated course of Letters-Libras (Brazilian Sign Language)/Portuguese Language at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte about their initial training and the process of teaching and learning Portuguese as a second language. This study arises from the lack of academic discussion related to the initial training of Deaf teachers to teach Portuguese as a second language to Deaf people. Since Portuguese regularly is not the Deaf person's comfort language, this study focus on this training, problematizing the academic literacy practices to these training teachers. To this, it discusses the main concepts of this research, dialoguing in the light of the theoretical references of Deaf Studies, New Literacy Studies, Historical-Cultural Theory and teacher training. To achieve this goal, data collection, in Libras, consisted of three stages: (i) documentary research; (ii) semi-structured interviews; (iii) focus groups. In order to analyze the data, which evokes the signaled voices of the four deaf undergraduates, the theoretical approach is the Dialogical Discourse Analysis based on Bakhtin Circle (2011), electing, subsequently, two categories of alterity: signaled voices from experiences: individual perceptions related to the proficiency in Portuguese and teacher identity; and signaled voices from experiences: perceptions related to the other person: speeches about training and the teacher. To ensure anonymity, this study used planet names as nicknames to each undergraduate. Results showed that: (i) there is no academic papers related to the training of the Deaf teacher to teach Portuguese as second language; two undergraduates value negatively the pedagogical practices of the Basic Education, in contrast, there was a mixed valuation (positive and negative) in the speeches of two other undergraduates related to the learning of...