(Re)construção da identidade profissional docente na formação inicial de professores de línguas estrangeiras na FLUP

Abstract

Recent studies point to the fact that initial teacher training plays a key rolein the construction of a teacher's professional identity. The responsibility forfacilitating the resources to start this construction of professional identity forfuture teachers rests mainly with higher education institutions.In this paper, some general conclusions about the beliefs, representationsand attitudes of trainees in relation to this aspect of their professionalizationare presented by trainers of different areas of the Masters in the Teaching ofForeign Languages, at the Faculty of Letters, the University of Porto (FLUP).For the collection of data, a questionnaire was given to trainees who had recentlycompleted their teaching practice as part of their teacher education at FLUP.The results promote refl ection on the current initial training model atFLUP and on constraints derived from the implementation of the Bolognaprocess. In addition, the data will be interpreted with a view to analysingthe type of teacher who is being trained and the effectiveness of the teachereducation offered to students.