摘要：This theoretical study is part of doctoral research in Linguistics at the University at Campinas. It is specifically an adaptation of a chapter concerning qualitative research in education that justifies the option for the indicative paradigm for the study of phenomenon in the field of institutional evaluation and learning in language. The paper is divided in six parts: a characterization of the classics cientific paradigm; a brief history of the crisis of the classic paradigm; aconceptual discussion of quantitativeresearch; the existing inter-relations between the quantitative and qualitative aspects of educational research, a commentary on the data and the analytic procedures; a specific approach to the indicative paradigm, with an indication of its pertinence and relevance to educational research as a whole and for the treatment of language phenomenon within the school.
关键词：Pesquisa educacional;Pesquisa qualitativa;Educação e linguagem - pesquisa;Educational research;Qualitative research;Education andlanguage-research
