Educação linguística e cidadã – um desafio de aprendizagem para a sala de aula de língua portuguesa

Abstract

This work is defined as a Case Study of a participatory and interventional nature - Action Research (MORIN, 2004) - and developed in the sphere of the Professional Master's Degree in Languages of Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora - PROFLETRAS, whose target audience are teachers of Elementary School II of Brazilian public schools. It is linked to the macroproject “Ensino de Língua Portuguesa – da Formação docente à sala de aula” (MIRANDA, 2014, FAPEMIG CHE APQ 02584/14), whose main objective is to build a learning environment conducive to effective literacy practices that articulates the student Protagonism, Authorship and Teaching Authority, a Network of Cooperation among students and teachers and Modeling, aiming to promote a Linguistic and Citizen Education. The investigative locus is a Portuguese Language classroom characterized by disorder, hostility, violence, disinterest, indifference and infrequency, from the 8th grade of elementary school, composed of 21 students, located in the municipality of Miracema, RJ, where the teacher- researcher worked searching an autoral path of reconstruction and professionalization of her practice as a Portuguese Language teacher. In this research, fundamentals, models of analysis, categories and action strategies built in a research network in our macroproject were replicated in an authorial way. The action research developed involved an initial diagnostic step, an interventional stage and a final diagnostic and evaluation stage. For the initial diagnosis, two (2) investigative instruments were used, a semi-open questionnaire in order to outline the socioeconomic and cultural profile of the students and an "Experience report" written about the experiences as Portuguese Language students. The results obtained after the analysis of such diagnoses were important indicators for the intervention stage, which was structured in three (3) projects ─ PROJECT 1: "Sarau Coração de Estudante": building a learning environment with poetry and music, PROJECT 2: Language and science: unraveling descritives texts and PROJECT 3: working values and the class assembly - both supported by a conception of language as social practice. The final diagnostic and evaluative stage, focused on the student voice, consisted of two (2) reports of experience as Portuguese Language students, one (1) initial, reporting all their experience and one (1) final, reporting the experience lived in 2017, both submitted to a method of discourse analysis in which we take as basis the Semantics of Frames (FILLMORE, 2009 [1982]; (SALOMÃO, 2009) and its computational lexicographic project named FrameNet (www.framenet.icsi.berkeley.edu). Over the course of seven (7) months, the intervention practices of this study - detailed and justified in an Interactive Digital Pedagogical Notebook - allowed the "chaos" of interactional relations to gradually give way to respect, protagonism and cooperative actions in classroom. In a special way, the author-researcher's authorial action resulted in the recovery of his authority, making possible the construction of an environment of learning conducive to a linguistic and citizen education.