ENSINO DE PORTUGUÊS COMO LÍNGUA DE ACOLHIMENTO: EXPERIÊNCIA EM UM CURSO DE PORTUGUÊS PARA IMIGRANTES E REFUGIADOS(AS) NO BRASIL

Abstract

Brazil has received a considerable number of immigrants of different nationalities from South America, Africa and countries like Bangladesh and Pakistan, but mainly Haitian and Syrians. However, there are no explicit public policies of teaching Portuguese to these people in Brazil. Civil society and some universities have begun a work to try to minimize the problem of the difficulty in the integration of immigrants due to communication problems. Nevertheless, there is a need to expand and discuss the concept of host language and a need of researches that promote social integration actions, through the teaching of the language in a host context. This article discusses the (de)(re)construction of the concept of host language and it presents the experience of the Portuguese language course as a host language, as part of the Research Project: PROACOLHER: Portuguese as Reception Language, offered at NEPPE (Center of Teaching and Research in Portuguese as a Foreign Language) at University of Brasília. The action research has brought us data we consider relevant to affirm that the teaching Portuguese in the host context has important specific characteristics that must be taken into account, since they influence the basic approach of the course, the material and the role of the teacher