Realidade brasileira: um desafio à construção da narrativa da nação monolíngue

Abstract

Abstract

This study argues that educational polices for foreign language teaching in Brazil have been based on monolingual principles that reflect and refract a monolingual image of a homogenous nation that has been unified around Portuguese language. With globalization and its processes, monolithic postures cannot take place anymore; on the other hand, diversity has become even more visible, challenging the narrative of homogeneity created since the Portuguese empire times. In order to analyze this tension between “mono- and multi-“, we have selected examples from literature that illustrate bilingual contexts from different Brazilian regions aiming at (re)constructing a more real image, an image of a country that has been marked by its linguistic and cultural diversity, therefore, this means that we need to have educational policies grounded on its own reality.

Keywords: Brazilian educational policies, monolingualism, bilingualism.