Relatos de experiências de ex-estudantes de português língua estrangeira: a coconstrução do conhecimento por meio da pesquisa narrativa

Abstract

Part of a research project in learning narratives, this paper tries to map the experience of three former university students of Portuguese as a foreign language (PLE), who graduated from the College of Exact and Natural Sciences (FaCEN), Paraguay, and, at the time of this research, were Post-Graduate students in Brazil. Their experiences were analyzed in two levels: their learning process in Paraguay and their consolidation of the language, in real context of use, in Brazil. The corpus was constituted by learning narratives collected through interviews with the use of Narrative Inquiry as means and method of work. The data was analyzed and coded in combination with the concept of Three-Dimensional Space. The results points to the insufficient number of hours dedicated to PLE classes; to the need to develop students' autonomy and, also, materials that expand the opportunities for study outside the classroom using the new technologies that focus on specific purposes and; for greater contact between students and native speakers.