Minivocabulário animado adolescente: uma proposta de ensino de léxico em sala de aula

Abstract

This study had its origin when, through a reflection, realized from our experiences in the classroom, we verified that the Portuguese teaching has been privileging for a long time the aspects related to grammar to the detriment of the lexical aspects that are little evidenced in teaching programs and textbooks, in which we usually find activities that superficially and insufficiently about the lexical concepts. The fact that one does not study or study a few aspects related to the lexicon leads the students to consider it as a closed, ready and finished system, which is not true. The lexicon of a language is in constant transformation, since it brings together communicative instruments that demands adaptation to social situations, generating the creation of new words and the resignification of others according to contexts and communicative needs, which leads us to conclude that it is directly related to linguistic variation, which is another deficiently addressed point in teaching materials and programs. Thus, our main objective was to develop a proposal of intervention directed to the expansion of the semantic-lexical repertoire in the Portuguese classes, focusing on the diastratic and diaphasic variations, with a view to the elaboration of an adolescent minivocabulary. To this end, we specifically designed workshops on semantic-lexical variation, producing a channel with the work resulting from activities in a social network for the dissemination of videos, contributing to the expansion of students' vocabulary and thus collaborating with others professionals in the area of Portuguese, especially of Basic Education. In order to reach the objectives of this work, we base ourselves, among others, on the theoretical concepts of lexicon and vocabulary (Cf. BARBOSA, 1998) and its teaching (Cf. ANTUNES, 2012) and on the concepts of norm and variation (Cf. COSERIU, 1980) and its teaching (Cf. BORTONI-RICARDO, 2004). As for the methodology, we decided to carry out an action research (Cf. THIOLLENT, 1986), with a group of 25 students from the 9th grade of Elementary School of a municipal school in Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. research their semantic-lexical knowledge to the realization of workshops, the production of an animated minivocabulary and the dissemination of the results obtained in a channel in a social network. We found, through the quantitative analysis of the data obtained, that our research contributed positively not only to the lexical expansion of the students, but mainly to the breakdown of some linguistic beliefs (Cf. LABOV, 2008) that they presented regarding linguistic variation and for promote their interest in researching and understanding Portuguese.