SOLINENGLISH AND OTHER LANGUAGES: HISTORY OF A BRIGHT ACTION

Abstract

Taking into consideration the importance of extra curriculum activities for the academic community, and for members of the external community in which the university is inserted, this work presents a brief historical account of the activity called SolinEnglish and Other Languages, developed at the Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia, UESB, for a period of eleven years. The report focuses on characteristics that vary from the historical aspects to elements that relate to the themes addressed in the activities, the participants, the involvement of faculty, students and staff members, the various impacts caused by the action and academic productions generated as a result of this process to the field of Applied Linguistics, and Critical Applied Linguistics, more specifically in its aspect with emphasis on language teaching and learning.