This linguistic investigation aims to study the conceptions of language and teaching interiorized by teachers from the first grades of basic education acting in the public
teaching networks. They are protagonists of the graduation program in plain pedagogy. The program aims to attend the determination of law, 9.394/96, that has the purpose of improving the basic education rates, qualifying the teaching activity, which is based upon the theoretical-practical relation. Facing this phenomenon, we
bring again the hypothesis: what language conceptions subsidize the subject‟s reflections when they are narrating their experiences theoretical-practical? We take
as a referential the language supported by theoretical contributions and authors that discuss the teaching of maternal language, circumstanced by the language
conceptions that base the practice of teachers in this area of the knowledge. We also chose to accomplish a theoretical sturdy of the memorial, in order to give visibility in text. The sample is made of 24 selected memorials, which build the corpus. It was analyzed through four categories that constitute the fundamental activities of Portuguese language teaching orality, writing, reading and grammar.
The results of the research confirm that the conditions of the memorials production were decisive in order to answer the raised hypothesis. Thus, the language conception inside the narrative discourses has an interactionist approach,
considering the way they auto refer the reconstruction of the practice of maternal language teaching