SCIENTIFIC PRACTICE IN THE FEMALE TEACHER’S WRITING

Abstract This paper investigates self-representations produced by a basic school female teacher in a professional master's dissertation for Portuguese teachers as their mother tongue in Brazilian territory. From the identified representations, the construction of the scientific literacy of the female educator in the professional graduate is problematized. The research is configured as a case study under the undisciplined perspective of Applied Linguistics, outlined by the questioning of the legitimized scientific culture and the linguistic analysis of the selected document. The results have showed the predominance of the researcher's self-representation aligned with the appropriate linguistic theories in the research, unfolding in the reproduction of a dominant scientific literacy model characteristic of academic postgraduate studies.