O dicionário escolar como ferramenta de ensino e aprendizagem em sala de aula

Abstract

The present study was originated from the fact that the school dictionaries are not yet being exploited by the Portuguese language teachers, that lead the students to not knowing how to use this material effectively. For this reason, in this study, the relevance of teaching how to use a school dictionary is investigated, as well as its lexicographical proposal, considering that there is a straight relation among the difficulties in developing activities proposed in class, in didactic books, and in the students' vocabulary. With the quoted pedagogical intervention proposal, developed in the Masters Professional in Language, at Uberlândia Federal University (PROFLETRAS - UFU), the proposal of use of two school dictionaries as didactics aids to the students of an 8th grade class of fundamental school at a state public school in Catalão/GO is intended, so that, with the material exploration possibility, they have a significant linguistic reflection so to develop lexical competition. For this matter, an actionresearch was developed, due to its interventional and interpretative character. In this way, the theoretical review is based on the perspectives of Biderman (2003), Barbosa (1996), Dias (2004), Farias (2007), Irandé (2012), Krieger (2012), Murakawa (1998), Dolz, Noverraz e Schneuwly (2004) among other scholars, and in documents such as the PCN (1998) and PNLD (2012). The Didactic Sequence comprised: knowledge observation and school dictionaries usage by the students; knowledge of the lexicographical proposal of the Aurélio Júnior (2011) and Caldas Aulete (2011) dictionaries, given by MEC; and fulfillment of activity modules, to propose to the students the efficient use of the school dictionaries as an every day didactic tool for the in-class practices. The material produced by the students based on the use of school dictionaries constitute the data for analysis of the effectiveness of the applied study, evidencing that the Didactic Sequence of the work with school dictionaries was configured as an indispensable pedagogical instrument. On the above, it is concluded that the lexicon teaching enabled by the use of school dictionaries is viable and must be a constant at school.