The aim of this paper is to discuss a study that investigated representations constructed in learning memorials written by pre-service foreign language (FL) teachers in a federal university of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The focus was not only to understand how these teachers signify their FL learning processes, but also to problematise the possible impacts of these significations on their future professional lives. This research adopted an inter/transdisciplinary approach (Applied Linguistics, French Discourse Analysis and Dialogical Discourse Analysis) to examine how the FL, the teaching-learning process and the subjects are represented. The findings indicate that teachers' relations concerning their learning experiences in FL are guided by representations that reveal their incompleteness as well as their constant and continuing interpellation to become a subject in FL.
foreign language teacher education; learning memorial; discursive representations