Educação (socio) linguística: ampliando a competência de uso da língua

Abstract

In this research, I intend to demonstrate how Sociolinguistics and its assumptions are able to extend the communicative competence of students speaking of the common urban variety (FARACO, 2008) who are in process of understanding and acquisition of the language they use. One goal is to get them to think about the use of language according to the most diverse social and interactional contexts. Therefore, undo prejudices that emerge from traditional practices and promote education which connects linguistic diversity as a result of social diversity is also the aim of this study. Thus, it is essential that the whole school encourages reflection on the mother tongue, thought shared by Bagno (2007, p.116) by revealing that: "It is precisely around that we should strive to create a pedagogy of linguistics variation and change, sociolinguistics rehabilitation, where the language is seen as heterogeneous, variable, mutant, subject to the vicissitudes and incidents of social life. ". In order to make such discussions more satisfactory to the reality of the classroom, the research described here is anchored in an action research work carried out in a class of ninth year of a private school in Juiz de Fora (MG). Basing on the methodology of ethnographic action research, I aimed to develop a pedagogy of language variation (FARACO, 2008), through Educational Sociolinguistics (Bortoni-RICARDO, 2004). I found that, from this proposal, the sociolinguistic education and the assumptions which support it can satisfactorily contribute to enlarge the communicative competence of students in the process of understanding and acquisition of the mother tongue.