The spanish law and the evasion of the portuguese/spanish Unioeste/Cascavel letters course: phenomena that intersect

Abstract

This paper investigates the relationship between the repeal of Law No. 11,161/2005 and evasion in the degree course in Portuguese/Spanish Letters of Unioeste/Cascavel. With the implementation of the Spanish Law, language teaching courses were opened in public schools, the discipline entered the curriculum of many institutions, as well as the opening of undergraduate courses to train professionals in the area and meet the demands of the labor market. However, even before all institutions were able to fully meet the rules of that law, its repeal occurred in 2017, which again impacted the labor market. In this sense, this research aims to understand to what extent the repeal of the law influenced the motivations for evasion of the Portuguese/Spanish Letters course of Unioeste/Cascavel. The study started from readings about linguistic policies, under the theoretical assumptions of Lagares (2018), Calvet (2007) and Martins (2016). From the analysis of the answers obtained in the application of a questionnaire to students enrolled in the course, we found that the repeal of the Spanish Law causes discouragement in the research subjects, who tend to abandon the course due to lack of professional appreciation.