Considerações sobre o ensino da Fonética Forense para estudantes de Letras e Linguística

This paper reports on the authors’ experience in teaching an introductory course on forensic phonetics to a group of linguistics students and young researchers. We present the course syllabus and the assignments participants had to complete. We discuss participants’ answers to the assignments and how they relate to the typical academic background students acquire in a linguistics major. We find that linguistics students and researchers are an apt audience for a course on subjects relating to forensic phonetics given their training in identifying and analyzing linguistic phenomena in an objective way, especially those relating to language and speech contextual variability. We suggest some areas where the curricula of linguistics majors in the Brazilian context could be improved to best prepare students to face the challenges of doing research or practical work in forensic phonetics.