FROM CONCEPTUAL CHANGE TO DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW CONCEPT: EXISTENTIAL CHANGE

The following experiments were developed for Researchers of Language Sciences. The Research was realized in National and International Universities and International Research Institut: UFSM (Universidade Federal de Santa Maria – RS – Brasil); FURG (Fundação Universidade Federal do Rio Grande – RS – Brasil); UNI-KIEL (Christhian-Albrechts University of Kiel – Germany); and, IPN – Leibniz - Institut für Pädagogik der Naturwissenschaften – UNI – KIEL / Germany), respectively. Here, the expression Language follows the complex conception of world of Wilhelm von HUMBOLDT. We don´t hold the language only its formal and objective, but we have characterized it in a greater spectrum that it´s your social context. We see language as culture, we learn to know her more than one language, as well as expression of the thought of a nation. The analysis groups were composed of 10 students in a course graduate of Language Sciences for one month. We use as an instrument of analysis questionnaires of pre-test. In the second group, formed by 10 students from an undergraduate multicultural Science of Language, the results were obtained by questionnaire and analyzed pre-and post-test for three months to perform the experiment. We conclude in both groups a poor knowledge of their area of expertise, especially in the theories and practices in the learning of information technology and communication, essential for the exchange of global cultures. We found that not only a Conceptual Change (CHI; VONIASDOU, 2005) as performed in the natural sciences, it is necessary, but also a change in which students enter the academic world aware and able to changing their social reality. The paradigm shift is called Existential Change (ZANELLA; AMARAL, CHAPMAN, 2005-2010).