Ideologias linguísticas e regimes de testes de língua para migrantes no Brasil
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2017
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In this paper, we analyze the language testing regime in the
context of transnational migration to Brazil and its relation to hegemonic
linguistic ideologies in the construction of body differentiation systems.
Therefore, we understand test as a formal instrument to measure proficiency,
established as a pre-requisite to the entry, residence, and/or acquisition of
nationality by migrants in several countries, working as a way of gatekeeping
state frontiers, according to the researched literature. Initially, we identified
three kinds of language tests in Brazil: the Brazilian Certificate of Proficiency
in Portuguese for Foreigners (Celpe-Bras); the Portuguese test for foreign
physicians within the federal government program “More Doctors for Brazil”;
and the verification of Portuguese literacy in naturalization processes. The
corpus analysis indicated several discrepancies between the state-of-art in the
studies of language tests for migrants and the Brazilian reality, putting into
perspective the very existence of a language testing regime in the country,
considering that the articulations of its linguistic and gatekeeping aspects
are contradictory. The resources indexed in the documents about tests in
Brazil actually show the affirmation of autonomy in the management of the
Portuguese language and the commodification of Portuguese teaching for
foreigners as a market strategy and a showcase of a globalized Brazilian culture,
in an ideological construction of static and naturalized correspondence between
official language and nation, creating therefore hierarchies among “desirable”
and “undesirable” migrant identities.
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Testes linguísticos, Ideologias linguísticas, Políticas linguísticas, Migração, Language tests, Language ideologies, Language policy, Migration
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DIAS, Ana Luiza Krüger; PINTO, Joana Plaza. Ideologias linguísticas e regimes de testes de língua para migrantes no Brasil. Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada, Belo Horizonte, v. 17, n.1, p. 61-81, 2017. DOI: 10.1590/1984-6398201611006. Disponível em: https://www.scielo.br/j/rbla/a/fykQYK4zDrDtHdGRrfMyXQN/?lang=pt. Acesso em: 14 fev. 2023.