Entre o campus e o campo: as interações sociocomunicativas entre Técnicos em Agropecuária e produtores de café do Caparaó

Abstract

This qualitative research is based on an investigative analysis of socio-communicative relations between agricultural technicians from Federal Institute of Espírito Santo (IFES), and coffee farmers from Caparaó region, both located in Alegre/Espírito Santo, Brazil. It has led us to an investigation concerning the agricultural technician’s performance, especially when it comes to his/her communicative relationship with Caparaó coffee farmers, by identifying how their interlocutive process occurs and finding out what causes communication failures that have been detected in such socio-communicative interaction. By doing so, we will bring to light Portuguese language teaching contributions on the agricultural technicians’ professional training. Considering a case study as well as a semi-structured questionnaire as methodology, we will interview coffee farmers to collect data in order to detect the effect of socio-communicative interaction between them and the agricultural technician. Audiovisual records and questionnaires will also play an important role in verifying how to deal with the teaching of Portuguese as mother tongue, and by consequence, how to use oral language in a myriad of socio-communication contexts.