Tempos de mudança em uma universidade brasileira: percepções de pesquisa sobre as práticas de linguagem, letramento e digitais de acadêmicos

Izabel Magalhães

Authors

Izabel Magalhães University of Brasília (UnB) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4715-4424

Keywords:

Academic Literacies, Digitization, Techno-Linguistic Biographies, Changing Literacy Practices, English and Portuguese

Abstract

With the current policy of internationalization of federal universities in Brazil, with the design of an appraisal system, and with the rapid trend towards digitization, there have been far-reaching changes in the day-to-day organization of academic life and in the communicative practices of academics. Before the internationalization policy, the main language of research was Portuguese, but now there is a growing shift to English in some fields. This article focuses on the impact of these changes on the language and literacy practices of academic staff, and on the stances and strategies they have adopted vis-à-vis the changes. It draws on interviews conducted with academics during a critical ethnographic research project carried out in two federal universities in 2019. The focus was on their academic trajectories over time, their techno-linguistic biographies and their views on the changes. I present detailed insights from research conducted with three academics at one of the federal universities.

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