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 research set out to explore the curriculum experiences of French-speaking students in a private tertiary education institution. The study was qualitative in nature and utilized narrative inquiry and the case study approach. Data-gathering methods included a blend of semistructured interviews, document analysis, participant observation and field notes. Data analysis employed content and thematic analyses. Findings that emerged from the study were seven-fold: First, the academic experiences of French-speaking students from pre-degree to third-year degree programme entailed a rigorous negotiation with the LoLT. They negotiated the pre-degree route to mainstream degree programme due to non-compliance with academic standards set for higher education. Second, French-speaking students negotiated the pre-degree route to mainstream degree programme because their curricula of study, while they negotiated secondary school education in French-speaking countries were not recognized by most South African public universities. Third, French-speaking students experienced a number of hidden curriculum experiences which were not visible but influenced the planned, enacted and assessed curricula. Fourth, the deportment of lecturers was a useful asset. Lecturers were sourced from different sociocultural perspectives of the world. The impact of lecturers’ deportment led to commitment to achieve excellence and dedication towards student learning. Fifth, the use of Zulu, Sotho and sporadic use of Afrikaans languages by lecturers became sociocultural experiences of French-speaking students. The impact of this was felt by French-speaking students when they took a longer time to negotiate transition from French-speaking to English-speaking. The rate at which white lecturers spoke and the unfamiliar accents of black South African lecturers became important aspects of experiences they negotiated at Montana College. Sixth, learning ensues when there is a hybridization of the three sociocultural factors namely language of communication, acculturation to the domain of influence and mediated identity. Seventh, it was found that power relations manifested themselves in different perspectives at Montana College. Lave and Wenger (1991) proposed that power relations exist in the field of education where teachers exercise their roles as facilitators of learning and students see that they are in possession of economic power, by virtue of the fact that they pay fees. Consequently the issues of power relations abound in the form of the “continuity-displacement contradictions” as suggested by Lave and Wenger (1991:115-116). Much new knowledge came to light, especially in terms of the three sociocultural factors (language, acculturation and identity). When these are in a state of redress, there is an emergent learning, depending on the extent of hybridization between the sociocultural factors. The magnitude of learning is conceptualized to depend on the extent of redress or hybridization among the sociocultural factors. / Curriculum and Instructional Studies / D. Ed. (Curriculum Studies)