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English Language Practicum; Social Representation; Teaching.
The Supervised English Language Practicum, is one of the mandatory stages for those who are studying the full degree. At the Regional University of Cariri-URCA, it is in the final semesters of the course, which ends up generating, in these students, yearnings and expectations of what they will find inside the classroom. Therefore, the objective of this research was to analyze the social representations that the students of the English Letters and Literature course at URCA construct in relation to the supervised practicum and how they interfere in their training/pedagogical performance. The research had as theoretical support the Theory of Social Representations (SRT), from the classic studies of Moscovici (2012) and Jodelet (2001) regarding the creation and improvement of the theory. In addition, we also used authors such as Arruda (2005), Abric (1998) and Andrade (2003) to understand the methodological design outlined for data analysis. Data collection took place in two ways, initially supervised practicum reports were selected, both related to elementary and high school. A total of 38 reports were selected for the corpus of the research, having been made available by the coordination of the Letters and Literature course at URCA. Then, we applied a questionnaire to students who were studying the curricular components targeted by our investigation, also obtaining 38 responses that were tabulated and selected through sections. From this collection, we created the categories to be analyzed, respectively: the practicum as a formative process at the university, the process of construction of the practicum by the students, and the teaching knowledge arising from the basic education teacher. The result of the analyzes presented a series of social representations that emerged from the practicum as a challenging moment, but at the same time it is a lot of learning for these students, especially for those who have never set foot in a public school classroom. In addition, we could see that these teachers in training drew representations that differentiate them from the basic education teacher, but which at the same time makes them assert themselves as active learners in their own learning construction process. Finally, they demonstrated, through their representations, that the primary and secondary school teacher has a lot to teach, not only through English language teaching approaches and methods, but through their experiences in the daily journey from the school floor. school. Finally, we understand that, even in the face of the adversities brought about by the COVID19 pandemic, the supervised practicum was a valuable training moment for these future professionals and that, when they come to practice the profession, these new English teachers will be able to overcome the adversities of classroom through a more technological teaching and focused on the learning purpose of its students.