Ideologias linguísticas e bilinguismo: o que é ser bilíngue para monolíngues, para bilíngues leigos e para profissionais bilíngues da área de Letras

Abstract

Bearing in mind that in today’s world being monolingual is the exception, investigating issues that may help a better development of language teaching and learning in schools and universities seems to be quite relevant. Therefore, the present research has as main objective investigate the linguistic ideologies on the concept of bilingualism, as well as on other questions that pervade it. To verify the existence of such ideologies, we analysed interviews with individuals divided into four different groups: bilingual Letters’ students, bilingual university professors, university bilinguals from other areas and monolinguals. The methodology chosen for this research consists in the application of questionnaires containing questions related to the opinion of the interviewees about topics related to bilingualism. With the data collected and analysed, it is possible to verify the existence of diverse ideologies about the subject that compromises the teaching and learning of foreign languages in the universities as well as in the language schools.