Language and culture in the undergraduate course in Language and Literature: a reflection upon the conceptions of students, Pedagogical Political Project and teaching programs
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https://doi.org/10.21165/el.v45i2.684Keywords:
linguistic education, undergraduate degree in Language and Literature, culture.Abstract
This article presents the results of a qualitative and quantitative research that aimed to investigate culture conceptions from undergraduate students of English Language and Literature of a public university of the countryside of São Paulo state, relating such culture conceptions to the ones present in the Pedagogical Political Project and in teaching programs of English language of the referred course. The results show the need to question the focus on national identities by means of key concepts, such as intercultural competence, symbolic competence, cultural essentialism, and otherness, among others, on the knowledge base of the undergraduate course of Languages and Literature. Thus, the course will be better able to meet the demands created for language education in contemporary times, with the expansion of current mobility and communication as transforming agents of local reality.Downloads
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