O português como segunda língua nas escolas da imigração alemã : um estudo do Jornal da Associação de Professores Teuto-Brasileiros Católicos do Rio Grande do Sul (1900 – 1939)

Abstract

This doctoral thesis aimes at examining the discourse on Portuguese as a second language at schools from the German immigration region in the Federal State of Rio Grande do Sul

(southern Brazil) as they appeared in the newspaper Jornal da Associação de Professores Teuto-Brasileiros Católicos do Rio Grande do Sul [Journal of the Catholic German-Brazilian

Teachers’ Association of Rio Grande do Sul] published between 1900 and 1939. Specifically, it discusses how the circulation of print media in German was possible in Rio Grande do Sul, particularly regarding the Jornal da Associação de Professores Teuto-Brasileiros Católicos do Rio Grande do Sul [Journal of the Catholic German-Brazilian Teachers’ Association of Rio Grande do Sul]; how Portuguese as a second language would become an issue of debate

regarding the education of the German migrant’s children in this Federal State; the tensions around this debate and the enunciations that constitute the discourse in the Jornal da

Associação de Professores Teuto-B