Crossing boundaries: the promotion of refugee’s rights through language teaching practices

From a concrete experience of receiving refugees, we discuss the meanings and modalities of language policy presents in this practice. We start from the notion of discursive practice (MAINGUENEAU, 1997, 2005), to reflect on the simultaneous production between language and social world. In the sequen...

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Main Authors: Bruno Deusdará, Poliana Coeli Costa Arantes, Décio Rocha
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Published: Universidade Federal Fluminense 2017-07-01
Series:Gragoatá
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Online Access:http://www.gragoata.uff.br/index.php/gragoata/article/view/885
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Summary:From a concrete experience of receiving refugees, we discuss the meanings and modalities of language policy presents in this practice. We start from the notion of discursive practice (MAINGUENEAU, 1997, 2005), to reflect on the simultaneous production between language and social world. In the sequence, we relate this experience to the challenges proposed for the field of Applied Linguistics. As analysis, we discuss the supervision meetings, whose experience leads us to a reflection that goes beyond the limits of teaching and linguistics. ---   DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.2017n42a885
ISSN:1413-9073
2358-4114