The clarity in the importance of the writing in the formation of teachers and the writing as a recent subject of investigation had contributed for the definition of the object of study of this thesis: to investigate the relations of teachers with the writing. In first place, theoretical questions are discussed to search greater understanding of this problematic around the writing and its dimension, by dialoguing, especially with the thinkers Mikhail Bakhtin and Roland Barthes, and their conceptions of language and writing. The field research was carried through in two state schools of formation, old teachers chools. Comments of lessons, interviews, questionnaires and analysis of documents had been used as methodological strategies. The matching between these sources of data, the search for convergences, under the light of the studied theoretical base, had allowed, in second place, to present the scene and its actors and who are the teachers of the formation schools, without ignoring their conditions of production. In the third place, tracing the discursive space, the relations between the teachers of the formation schools with the writing and their conceptions and feelings of language are presented. These had pointed to the predominance of the language as mechanic ability and as writing-copy. This study had led to reflections on the necessity of the (re)design of the courses in the schools of formation, where the writing, independent of the subjects taken as content