Ensino de português - gramática: encontro de possibilidades

Abstract

The object of this quality research is to know the conception that there is through of nine Portuguese teacher’s practice work in Ensino Fndamental from private schools and public ones of Juiz de Fora. The main idea is to analyze these teacher’s professional speech as a possibility to put in relief meanings that makes part of their practice as well as indicates strategies of change. This process is guided by theoretical and languages conception reflections, grammar and speech analyses. They are basic elements from which we can understand these teacher’s practices. For it we adopt a theoretical perspective which is included into the French line of speech analysis. This line of analysis makes possible to us to analyze the teacher’s professional speech in order to check out the network there is in their work. From this perspective we focusing some points such as image of the reference – Portuguese teaching; reference of grammar – the use of the text; professional practice – the relation between the grammar and Portuguese teaching; the professional speech puts on relief the prevalence of traditional conception of grammar based on the standard language. There is another indicator which is the use of the text in the professional practices related with the gender variety. However the text is reduced to an object closed in it own. It is used to teach grammar, reading and writing as complementary activities. The results of this research suggest that we can get several images from the teacher’s speech, which point to non-defined subject-teacher. We check out the countless possibilities of analyzing the professional speech from our theoretical perspective, because the speech is constituted from something said before and resound in the other, building an infinity sequence. The comprehension about the teacher as who has a plural identity forged from a relation with the other, is an invitation to look for changes such as more improvement courses which makes possible to overcome the traditional language point of view. Like that the language will be conceived as an interaction way. In class, this is the conception that needs work in Portuguese teaching in order to make possible the use of the language in authentic situations. Like this the student will developed his/her communicative ability as speakers who thinks, criticizes, creates, changes, produces and interacts as well.