Language policies in a public technical and high school: the offer of foreign languages

This paper aims to understand the foreign languages' offer in a public technical and high school in the countryside of Rio Grande do Sul. The study presented here is based on current theoretical references about language policy and it is supported by the concepts of governmentality and ideology. Data generation and analysis were made according to ethnographic perspective, taking as source semi-structured interviews, document analysis and visual records. The participants are members of the institution (one ex-coordinator and two students). Their reports gave us significant elements to answer our research question, which is: is there evidence that the students' ideological view is in consonance with the school's linguistic policy to foreign languages in high school? The data analysis allows us to understand that small changes related to language policy are in course, however they are not enough to answer the students' expectations related to the foreign languages offered in the school.

language policies; governmentality; ideology; foreign languages' offer