ABSTRACT
The present article aims to analyze the reactions-responses of professors who belong to a Structuring Professoriate Group (SPG) from a public university's Undergraduate Language Teacher Education Programs to discourses in official education documents that discuss the SPGs in higher education institutions. It focuses on the relations of tensions between discourses involved in verbal interactions. Bakhtinian Dialogical Discourse Theory fundamentals guide the study, favoring the debate around refractions and revaluations of legal discourses related to the SPG creation in the scope of undergraduate programs. A dialogical analysis reveals that the utterances of the research subjects interact with the official voices which determine the SPG creation and, somehow, are answers to them, welcoming them, as well as altering them, refusing them and disregarding them, in a context in which the Language programs would be assessed by the Ministry of Education evaluation committee.
KEYWORDS:
Structuring Professoriate Group; Official Discourses; Professors' Discourses; Dialogism; Responsiveness