“Speaking properly”: Language Conceptions Problematized in English Lessons of an Undergraduate Teacher Education Course in Brazil

Abstract

This qualitative research was done in a class of English Oral Practice 2 in an undergraduate English teacher education course in Brazil. Grounded on the conception of language as social practice, the first author of this article developed a problematizing pedagogy focusing on race/racism and language as space of power. Resorting to class activities (a question in a written test, an oral test, and a feedback session) and the professor’s diary, we analyzed the students’ accounts about the subject and the meanings they constructed about language.