LINGUISTIC LANDSCAPE IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS DURING THE PANDEMIC CHRONOTOPE: teachers views on Teleaulas Natal Project
Language; Identity; Linguistic Landscape; Public school.
With covid-19, there were a break to the regular classes, and, as a strategy to attend students, the Municipal Secretary of Education created Teleaulas Natal Project, that involve to record some classes to the students from 9th level of basic education. Based on that project, this investigation aims to analyze (the building of) linguistic landscape of municipal public schools in the city of Natal in the pandemic chronotope, by the view of teachers and assessors involved in the project. This research has qualitative and interpretative nature; developed by the Applied Linguistic approaches; having as theoretical referece a dialogical and philosophical conception of language based on the Circle of Bakhtin, discussions about identity developed by the Cultural Studies and studies that consider the conception of linguistic landscape. Methodological proposal includes application of a online questionnaire, due to the limitations of pandemic chronotope. Based on the data, this study analyzes relationship between teleclasses and emergency teaching, the choice of television as an accessible tool, the importance of accessibility of the resources to the mediation in the process of teaching and learning, interaction during the teleclasses and the experience of the teachers. Results point to the construction of a pandemic linguistic landscape marked by teleclasses to enhance the process of teaching and learning of the students. In addition to this, it presents as a suggestion the adoption of this methodology as a permanent project in the public schools linked to Municipal Education Secretary in Natal.