Inglês à moda da casa: uso intercultural de língua e formação de inglesidades no processo de ensino aprendizagem

Abstract

In this article we intend to bring out the issues regarding the teaching and learning of English which contribute to the constitution of a localized Englishness. Among the contributing elements to the arousal of such variety, we give special relevance to the ideas of interculturality and intercultural speaker, setting up, by this means, a reflection on the notion of use, as well as the issues related to the dichotomy of native speaker versus non-native speaker. Besides approaching the ideological dispute between standard and non-standard language, this article is justified due to our necessity of bringing a discussion based upon a perspective of teaching and learning language-cultures through the notion of context of use as well as the production in the target language, intertwined ingredients in the teaching-learning of English language within the Brazilian context. Thus, throughout this article, we will adopt a dialogue with some of the theoreticians who deal with questions which are epistemologically aligned and which range from Paulo Freire's Critical Pedagogy (2003) to the English as a Lingua Franca and the Intercultural English Language Use. Through the present discussion, we expect to encourage the studies around the phenomenon of the spread of English in the world as well as the language glocalization phenomena and its teaching implications in the contemporary setting.