Ensino de inglês para internacionalização crítica: análise de experiências no IsF-UFS

Abstract

Considering the relationbetweeninternationalization and globalization and the predominance of neoliberal interests, authors such as Brandenburg and de Wit (2011) and Knight (2014) have advocated for changes in the definition of the term. Internationalization, when practiced as a neutralresponse to global demands can contribute to the continuity of colonial patterns. Therefore, efforts towards a critical internationalization are important, especially concerningEnglish language teaching in this context. This work, in this sense, aims to analyze three English courses developed at the LwB nucleilocated at the Federal University of Sergipe (UFS), which were offered in 2020, under the perspective of critical internationalization. To this end, the courses were organized into two groups: one focused on orality (oral comprehension and production), with focus on the theme, the local/global concern, the proposed reflections, and the focus of each class; and another of linguistic varieties, considering the variety and the proposed reflections. Thisis a qualitative study characterized as action research. Its results indicate actions towards a critical English language teaching, with the dominance of a perspective of internationalization for global solidarity, given that the search for the identification and the resolution of problems was recurrent. Aspects to be (re)thought in teaching practice in this context also emerged.