The education of teachers of Portuguese for foreigners in the contemporaneity: scenarios, challenges and possibilities

A formação de professores de Português para Estrangeiros (PE) faz parte de uma agenda acadêmica recente desencadeada pelos efeitos da internacionalização no Brasil. Neste artigo, pretendemos trazer à tona algumas reflexões a respeito da prática docente do professor de PE bem como avaliar contextos históricos contemporâneos que deram origem a essa nova modalidade de professor de línguas no contexto brasileiro. Não obstante pretendemos apontar alguns saberes que têm se tornado fundamentais para a prática docente do professor de PE e problematizarmos a necessidade de criar cursos no Ensino Superior que formalizem a profissionalização detes.The education of teachers of Portuguese for foreigners (PF) is part of a recent academic agenda triggered by the effects of the arrival of the internationalization in Brazil. The demand for PF teachers has been increasing, both in Brazil and abroad, either to work in language courses or to work in formal education environments such as schools and universities. It is important to emphasize that this is an area of teaching activity that has emerged in the contemporary world and that it has a few teachers trained and/or prepared to practice it, a factor that still makes the teaching of PF an enigmatic work. In this article we intend to expose some reflections about the teaching and practice of PF teacher as well as to evaluate contemporary historical contexts that gave rise to this new modality of language teacher in the Brazilian context. Nevertheless, we intend to point out some knowledge that became fundamental for the teaching practice of PF teachers and to problematize the necessity to create courses in higher education that regulate the professionalization of PF teachers