A prova de língua portuguesa em concursos para docentes: um contrassenso? / Portuguese Language Exam inTeachers Contest: A Nonsense?

This text is an excerpt from the doctoral thesis and it aims to analyse the theoretical questionnaire about the knowledge of Portuguese language in the construction of a Portuguese Language (PL) exam applied to candidates in the contest for professor of sociology at the Federal Institute of São Paulo (IFSP, in Portuguese), in 2015. The theoretical basis is the Dialogic Discourse Analysis with Bakhtin (2003, 2010) and Orlandi (2001, 2007). It is questioned the descriptive character of the test, which was focused on formal aspects, at the expense of the discussion of the possible meanings of language use, as recommended by the National Curriculum Parameters (PCN, in Portuguese) and the National Common Curricular Base (BNCC, in Portuguese). This research follows qualitative methodology, a documentary nature, starting from the materiality of the statements of the PL test, with focus on social practices. It is important to emphasize that in 2018, three years later the previously mentioned contest, the IFSP applied tests to candidates with the same background, reframing the evaluation so as not to consider only grammatical aspects.