DA UNIVERSIDADE À ESCOLA: GESTÃO E ATITUDES LINGUÍSTICAS EM ATIVIDADES DE MEDIAÇÃO DE LEITURA NO PARAGUAI

This paper intends to reflect on the linguistic attitudes of university extension students in the encounter with children from a public school in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, through a literary reading mediation project. Based on interpretations about linguistic attitudes and behaviors (MORENO FERNÁNDEZ, 1998; GROSJEAN, 2011; CALVET, 2002) of the extension team in a multilingual context, as language managers, through their written reports on the activities performed with the children, data analysis will bring directions on official and actual language policies (SPOLSKY, 2005, 2016; RAJAGOPALAN, 2011, 2013) at the University and a school in Paraguay. Some significant aspects are instilled from this study: 1) the difference between the mediators' reports in their relationship with the languages present in the measurement environment, evoking distinct needs for interaction; 2) the initial strangeness of the university students in relation to the Guarani/Jopará 1 Franciele Maria Martiny, doutora em Letras, professora adjunta da área de Letras/Linguística na Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana – Foz do Iguaçu-PR: franmartiny@hotmail.com 2 Jocenilson Ribeiro, doutor em Linguística, professor adjunto na Universidade Federal de Sergipe – São Cristóvão-SE, email: jonuefs@gmail.com 3 Mariana Cortez, doutora em Letras, professora da área Letras/Linguística na Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-americana Foz do Iguaçu-PR: macortez74@hotmail.com 35 Dossiê: Atitudes Linguísticas e Políticas Linguísticas: abordagens interdisciplinares Ideação. Revista do Centro de Educação, Letras e Saúde. v. 22, n°2, 2020. e-ISSN: 1982-3010. language of Paraguayan students; 3) the presence of Portuguese in the spoke of children; and 4) the development and need for an intercultural posture on the part of mediators in order to favor the bond with children, who are also positioned in a way to enable the encounter with the "other", despite their different linguistic knowledge.