MULTILINGUISMO NA ESCOLA: CRENÇAS E ATITUDES LINGUÍSTICAS DE PROFESSORES DE LÍNGUA PARA/COM IMIGRANTES REFUGIADOS EM ESCOLAS PÚBLICAS DE CHAPECÓ

Abstract

The teaching of Portuguese language influences in the process of social integration of refugee students, and the teacher plays an important role in this process. This way, we intend to identify and describe linguistic beliefs of language teachers who teach in the same classroom to Brazilian students and refugee immigrants or refugees’ kids. We seek to investigate how teachers behave in welcoming different cultures inside the school environment, and how they promote the tolerance when it comes to the insertion of these people in the school and social contexts. From the identification of the teachers’ beliefs it has been realized how the teachers formation and the support given to them by organizational and political instances in influence concerning the providing of better conditions to promote the linguistic and cultural maintenance and integration, and the awareness of the diversity in the school environment.

Keywords

• minority languages
• refugee immigrants
• language teachers
• linguistic beliefs and attitudes
• chapecó