Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The objective of this research is to analyze critically the discourses from Political Pedagogical Project (PPP) and from students and graduates in an Undergraduation Course in English Language (CLI) from a Brazilian southern university about the academic literacies practices and events in professional teaching. For that, we try to identify the academic literacies practices predicted in PPP to students and academic literacies events by students and graduates experience reports. We based ourselves on concepts that would enable us to analyze the PPP and students and graduates discourses about the academic literacies. So, we chose the theoretical and methodological approach Critical Genre Analysis (MEURER, 2002), that interweaves three social theories, Critical Discourse Analysis (FAIRCLOUGH, 1992, 2003), Sociorretórica (MILLER, 1984; SWALES, 1990; BAZERMAN, 2005) and Systemic Functional Grammar (HALLIDAY; MATTHIESSEN, 2004). In addition, conversations about academic literacies (BARTON, 1991; LEA; STREET, 2006), the concept of Legitimate Peripheral Participation (LPP) (LAVE; WENGER, 1991) and the theoretical and methodological approach ethnography (SAVILLE-TROIKE, 1989) allowed us to analyze and discuss the PPP and students and graduates discourses. To unveil the PPP discourse, we analyze the Egress Profile and Curriculum sections and to the discourse from students and graduates we developed semi-structured questionnaires from PPP excerpts. On the PPP analysis, we identify the academic literacies practices predicted to students and graduates in the CLI. Three academic literacies practices are recognized in the PPP: participation in projects, text production and consumption and professional performance. These three practices were described by identifying the skills and competences predicted for egress and the disciplines. We also recognize that the text production and consumption seems to carry a central role among the practices participation in projects and professional performance. In the analysis of questionnaires, from the search for textual rich features in meaning (BARTON, 2002), we noted four academic literacies practices: participation in the activities of the courses in CLI, participation in projects, participation in scientific events and professional performance. These four practices are recognized in the students and graduates discourse by reporting the academic literacies events they said engage to and participate in. Students and graduates more clearly described the events that constituted practices in that were engaging in the activities of CLI. It seemed also that as these students participated in these events, (re)constitute themselves as English teachers, from the recognition of this context and the individuals involved in these events (FAIRCLOUGH, 2010). / O objetivo desta dissertação é analisar criticamente o discurso do Projeto Político Pedagógico (PPP) e de alunos e egressos de um curso de Letras/Inglês (CLI) de uma universidade do sul do Brasil sobre as práticas e os eventos de letramentos acadêmicos na formação como profissional de línguas. Para tanto, buscamos identificar as práticas de letramentos acadêmicos previstas no PPP para os estudantes do CLI e os eventos de letramentos acadêmicos por meio dos relatos de experiência dos estudantes e egressos. Embasamo-nos, assim, em conceitos norteadores que nos possibilitassem analisar o discurso do PPP e dos alunos e egressos sobre os letramentos acadêmicos. Por isso, escolhemos a abordagem teórico-metodológica da Análise Crítica de Gênero (MEURER, 2002), que entrelaça três teorias de cunho social, Análise Crítica do Discurso (FAIRCLOUGH, 1992; 2003), Sociorretórica (MILLER, 1984; SWALES, 1990; BAZERMAN, 2005) e Gramática Sistêmico-Funcional (HALLIDAY; MATTHIESSEN, 2004). Além disso, as conversações sobre letramentos acadêmicos (BARTON, 1991; LEA; STREET, 2006), o conceito de Participação Periférica Legítima (PPL) (LAVE; WENGER, 1991) e a abordagem teórico-metodológica da etnografia (SAVILLE-TROIKE, 1989) nos permitiram analisar e discutir os discursos do PPP e dos alunos e egressos. Para desvelar o discurso do PPP, analisamos as seções Perfil Desejado do Egresso e Currículo e para o discurso dos alunos e egressos, desenvolvemos questionários semiestruturados a partir de excertos do PPP. Na análise do PPP, identificamos as práticas de letramentos acadêmicos previstas para os estudantes e egressos do CLI. Três práticas de letramentos acadêmicos foram reconhecidas no PPP: participação em projetos, produção e consumo de textos e atuação profissional. Essas três práticas foram descritas por meio da identificação das habilidades e competências previstas para o egresso e das ementas das disciplinas. Reconhecemos também que a produção e consumo de textos parece carregar um papel central entre as práticas participação em projetos e atuação profissional. Na análise dos questionários, a partir da busca por elementos textuais ricos em significação (BARTON, 2002), evidenciamos quatro práticas de letramentos acadêmicos: participação nas atividades das disciplinas do CLI, participação em projetos, participação em eventos científicos e atuação profissional. Essas quatro práticas foram reconhecidas no discurso dos alunos e egressos por meio do relato sobre os eventos de letramentos acadêmicos que eles disseram se engajar e participar. Os estudantes e egressos mais claramente descreveram os eventos que constituíam as práticas na medida em que iam se engajando nas atividades do CLI. Pareceu-nos também que à medida que esses estudantes participavam desses eventos, (re)constituíam-se como professores de inglês, a partir do reconhecimento do contexto e dos sujeitos envolvidos nesses eventos (FAIRCLOUGH, 2010).

This classroom ethnography documents the developing critical literacy pedagogy of an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) instructor over the course of several terms. My research, which involved extensive collaboration with the EAP instructor, explores how specific classroom practices and discourses are enacted and mediated through dialogic intertextualities, material objects, and social actions that frame representations about language, literacy, and what Lefebvre (1988) called “le quotidien” – the everyday, and how these affect the students’ meaning-making potential in specific ways. It also traces the contours (and detours) of the instructor’s classroom practices after the researcher’s mediation in the form of collaborative inquiries on functional grammar and critical literacy, and the effects of these classroom practices on making meaning in her EAP classes. I consider several issues from an integrated theory and practice perspective. Because of an urgent need to understand the students’ practices and epistemologies as they engage in ever newer forms of multimodal text productions, I contend that EAP classroom practices must be reshaped to facilitate more (inter)active engagements of the multimodal texts that saturate students’ lives, both inside the class and outside. Related to this, I highlight in my classroom data what actually counts as the ‘critical’ or the ‘uncritical’ in this EAP classroom and argue why these distinctions matter. Lastly, I suggest ways in which the role of a critical multiliteracies education in EAP can meet the pragmatic needs of both students and teachers. My research contributes to a much-needed dialogue between critically oriented researchers and practitioners in the field of TESOL/Applied Linguistics by bridging the gap between theory and practice. The lessons learned from this collaborative classroom praxis point to concrete ways to help EAP teachers and students utilize their meaning-making potential. This involves equipping them with an expanded social semiotic tool-kit that can enable them to not only meet their immediate academic needs, but also help create a more active and possibly transformative role in the social constructions of discourse, language, and society. This doctoral dissertation has implications for those who are involved in EAP teaching and research, curriculum planning, teacher training, and student needs assessment.

This classroom ethnography documents the developing critical literacy pedagogy of an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) instructor over the course of several terms. My research, which involved extensive collaboration with the EAP instructor, explores how specific classroom practices and discourses are enacted and mediated through dialogic intertextualities, material objects, and social actions that frame representations about language, literacy, and what Lefebvre (1988) called “le quotidien” – the everyday, and how these affect the students’ meaning-making potential in specific ways. It also traces the contours (and detours) of the instructor’s classroom practices after the researcher’s mediation in the form of collaborative inquiries on functional grammar and critical literacy, and the effects of these classroom practices on making meaning in her EAP classes. I consider several issues from an integrated theory and practice perspective. Because of an urgent need to understand the students’ practices and epistemologies as they engage in ever newer forms of multimodal text productions, I contend that EAP classroom practices must be reshaped to facilitate more (inter)active engagements of the multimodal texts that saturate students’ lives, both inside the class and outside. Related to this, I highlight in my classroom data what actually counts as the ‘critical’ or the ‘uncritical’ in this EAP classroom and argue why these distinctions matter. Lastly, I suggest ways in which the role of a critical multiliteracies education in EAP can meet the pragmatic needs of both students and teachers. My research contributes to a much-needed dialogue between critically oriented researchers and practitioners in the field of TESOL/Applied Linguistics by bridging the gap between theory and practice. The lessons learned from this collaborative classroom praxis point to concrete ways to help EAP teachers and students utilize their meaning-making potential. This involves equipping them with an expanded social semiotic tool-kit that can enable them to not only meet their immediate academic needs, but also help create a more active and possibly transformative role in the social constructions of discourse, language, and society. This doctoral dissertation has implications for those who are involved in EAP teaching and research, curriculum planning, teacher training, and student needs assessment.