Notas para uma política de ensino de línguas

• Main Author: José Carlos Paes de Almeida Filho
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais 2015-07-01
• Series: Texto Livre: Linguagem e Tecnologia
• Subjects: Foreign Language teaching development index; Language policy; Language teaching policy; Policies for the teaching of Portuguese as a foreign language; Requirements for a language teaching policy
• Online Access: http://www.periodicos.letras.ufmg.br/index.php/textolivre/article/view/8225

The range of supporting factors in the education of agents for a professional and developed teaching of languages includes language planning whose scope is wider and shelters important second and foreign language policies. For example, when the index for the development of Portuguese as a Foreign Language in Brazil is considered, the topic of official policies deserves one of the lowest scores among the fourteen criteria taken into consideration in the paper by Almeida Filho (2007). Why does this happen? Is the prospect similar for the languages most commonly taught at schools? What is a language teaching policy in the realm of a supposed language policy enforced in the country? Which are the contours of a policy needed for official purposes and by the institutions? In this article some answers are attempted for these questions associated to a cause that slows the development of Foreign Language Teaching in the nation.