Banca de DEFESA: GERCLEIDE GOMES DA SILVA FERREIRA DO NASCIMENTO

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STUDENT : GERCLEIDE GOMES DA SILVA FERREIRA DO NASCIMENTO
DATE: 29/11/2024
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Remoto
TITLE:

REPRESENTATIONS OF BRAZIL IN THE PFL TEXTBOOK: AN INTERCULTURAL ANALYSIS

KEY WORDS:

Portuguese as a foreign language. Interculturality. Textbook analysis.

PAGES: 125
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Lingüística
SUBÁREA: Lingüística Aplicada
SUMMARY:

In the context of globalization and increased international mobility, the insertion of a Foreign Language (FL) takes place in a very dynamic way and the role played by culture takes on a new direction as it is a fundamental part of the process of teaching and learning a FL. With this in mind, issues relating to interculturality are becoming more relevant in the 21st century. This work is part of this scenario, whose central theme is cultural representations and the image of Brazil portrayed in three Portuguese as a Foreign Language (LDPLE) textbooks from the perspective of interculturality. The aim of this thesis is to interpret and analyze the aforementioned representations in these materials, as well as to observe the extent to which stereotypes exist in the selected corpus - if they do, we seek to identify which of them are reinforced in the materials. The theoretical framework underpinning this research is organized by cultural and intercultural studies, namely: Bennet (2013); Kramsch (2018); Mendes (2011); Meyer (2013), among others. This research is defined as qualitative, documentary and interpretive in nature, since the perspective is to observe the data, record it, analyze it, categorize it and interpret it. Our corpus consists of three textbooks published between 2020 and 2023, namely: SAMBA!: Portuguese Language Course for Foreigners (Ferraz; Pinheiro, 2020); Tirando de letra: Brazilian Portuguese for Foreigners (Silva, et al., 2020), A Cara do Brasil: Portugues para estrangeiros (Araujo; Vicentini; Marcelino, 2023). The data allowed us to categorize the representations into themes and sub-themes that were found in all the works under analysis. Based on this analysis, we were able to confirm our initial hypothesis that LDPLEs contribute to maintaining a stereotyped image of Brazil. Thus, they reinforce distorted representations of the country, as well as the predilection for the southeast region in terms of the examples used in the materials. In addition, the images surveyed suggest Brazilian representations that are crystallized in the foreigner's imagination, as well as constructions of little significance in terms of Brazil's cultural and intercultural aspects.

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Interna - 1801855 - ALESSANDRA CASTILHO FERREIRA DA COSTA
Interna - 2194174 - ANA GRACA CANAN
Interno - 1720830 - MARCELO DA SILVA AMORIM
Externo à Instituição - LUIZ HERCULANO DE SOUSA GUILHERME - IFSC
Externa à Instituição - MARILIA LIMA PIMENTEL COTINGUIBA - UNIR