A adequação linguística enquanto elemento essencial a diversas práticas sociais

Abstract

By the importance of appropriate linguistic context, our achievements to our social practices give satisfactorily, this research aims to develop a pedagogical intervention with elementary students, in order to contribute to the improvement of their communicative competence. This survey was conducted during the Portuguese language lessons in a class of 9th year of elementary school to a public school of the district Guarda dos Ferreiros /MG. We emphasize that the linguistic inadequacy, manifested by these students, was more visible in texts that demanded greater formality and/or use of the linguistic variety cultured and that we choose to search textual written productions of these students. Adopting the methodology of action research, this study ran through the following steps: the identification of the problem situation); b) creating of pedagogical intervention; c) implementation and monitoring of pedagogical intervention; and d) evaluation of the consequences and effects of the intervention implemented. We remember that, to raise the data, we asked students who produce texts of genre News before and after the implementation of pedagogical intervention. In this way, we can say that the composition of the corpus has two different purposes: a) check the problem situation previously detected; and (b) to assess the consequences and the effects of intervention with regard to communicative competence of students. When the data analysis, we seek to verify whether there has been decrease in incidence of inadequate use of lexical items in relation to the context of communication in texts produced by them. In other words, we evaluate if the intervention, in fact, contributed to the improvement of communicative competence of these students. In support of our studies, we performed a theoretical review about lexicon, linguistic variation and how these issues are reflected in the practices of teaching and learning of Portuguese. To this end, we contemplate in our research, authors and scholars in the area of Linguistics, Sociolinguistics and education, as well as the National curricular parameters (PCN) of the elementary school of the Portuguese language. Among the scholars who published our studies, we highlight Coseriu (1979, 1980), Preti (1994, 2006, 2008), Labov (1966), Faraco (1991, 2004), Bagno (2002, 2007, 2012), Bortoni- Ricardo (2004, 2006, 2007), Antunes (2009, 2012), Geraldi (1984), Travaglia (2002), Ferraz (2006, 2008), Biderman (1978, 2001) and Barbosa (1978, 1990, 2001). Data analysis pointed out that the implemented educational intervention could contribute to the improvement of communicative competence of the aforementioned students.