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Date Posted: 11:41:31 10/23/04 Sat
Author: José Euríalo
Subject: Autonomy and teachers as the worst people to teach languages

Colegas:

Segue, abaixo, o que creio ser uma senhora provocação!

Segundo LEFFA (2002, §23), “excetuados os casos de imersão, só é possível aprender uma língua estrangeira se o aluno for autônomo”. Já LITTLE (2000, p.1, §1) escreve: “i) it is unreasonable to expect teachers to foster the growth of autonomy in their learners if they themselves do not know what it is to be an autonomous learner; ii) in determining the initiatives they take in their classrooms, teachers must be able to apply to their teaching those same reflective and self-managing processes that they apply to their learning”. BREEN & MANN (1997, p.148, §3), por sua vez, afirmam algo parecido “(...) I need to recognize and assert um own autonomy” (as a teacher).

Em trecho de “The English verb: an exploration of structure and meaning” (1986) que também tangencia a questão da autonomia, Michael Lewis (1986) afirma: “In many ways language teachers are the worst possible people to teach languages. They are unusual, because they succeeded in learning languages themselves! It is important to remember that of every student who has learnt a language well enough to become a teacher of that language, hundreds of students have ‘failed’. Not only have they failed to learn the language, but often the experience has been negative and anti-educational.” (LEWIS, 1986, p.15, §5).

O que vocês pensam sobre essa afirmação de Lewis e o que já fizemos como alunos(as) e professores(as), o que lemos e discutimos, neste curso, sobre autonomia e papéis do professor? (Como podem ver, não é só a Júnia que joga lenha na fogueira!)

José.

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