Trajectory of an English language teacher in Education spaces: reflections
and transformations
English Teacher Education. Critical literacy. Autoethnography. (de)coloniality.
This study aims to reflect and give new meanings to the practices of an English language teacher, in order to create intelligibility about her teaching. It is in the area of Transgressive Applied Linguistics, which understands language as social interaction, providing questions about who we are, why we are what we are, how we are (re)(de)constructed in and by it in the presence of others. This investigation covers Bakhtin's theoretical assumptions of language (1992; 1995), Janks' concept of critical literacy (2010; 2012; 2016), southern epistemologies, studies on decoloniality, the vision of Good Living and the investigations in teacher education (Pimenta, 2002; Nóvoa, 2017). The methodology used is autoethnography as it focuses on the individual stories of the research teacher, which made it possible to develop a rich critical-reflective and transformative study on the trajectory in different training environments for English language teachers.