Impelled by questions still raised during the Graduation course regarding the everydayness of pedagogical practices mainly in the public sector, I have positioned myself as a researcher in two classrooms in which English is taught as a Foreign Language in a public school in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais. The data were built following principles of ethnography. They are constituted by expanded notes written from field notes taken in two classrooms during the English classes and an interview made with the teacher of English as a Foreign Language. I analyse the interview with the English teacher and relate it to the expanded notes in order to observe the aspects that influence her pedagogical practice. For the analysis of the interview, I make use of the concept of footing applied by Goffman (2002) so that I could notice the teacher s discursive movements and some facets of her self. In this way, I intended to look for more understandings regarding the questions about pedagogical practices raised in the Graduation course. In addition, I reflect upon questions concerned with Foreign Language teacher education and the role played by classroom research throughout the Letras Graduation Course.