Diversidade linguística no ensino de Português: desafios do professor de língua materna no contexto escolar

Abstract

Portuguese language teaching has been the subject of discussion for decades, but despite all the changes that have occurred (or should have occurred), the debate about the quality of teaching, the difficulties of students and teacher's training has not stopped. In this work, I bring some pertinent considerations in analyzing this situation, but I hold my gaze to the teacher, especially in relation to academic training, continuing education and the pedagogical and documentary input received from the institution for its pedagogical practice, And the teaching of Portuguese. In this perspective, the research was carried out on the challenges faced by the teachers in the practice of a conscious practice regarding the linguistic variation in the classroom, which is possible knowing sociolinguistic theories and receiving pedagogical support. Thus, this study had a general objective to reveal the challenges encountered by the teacher of Portuguese Language in the teaching exercise when teaching the mother tongue through a sociolinguistic approach, considering the input received from the teaching network. It is based on Variationist Sociolinguistics (Labov, 2008) and Bortoni-Ricardo Educational Sociolinguistics (2004, 2005 and 2008). To achieve what I proposed, I outlined four specific objectives for more detailed verification of the object studied, they are: 1) Identify the profile of the elementary school teacher; 2) To verify if the teacher has sociolinguistic knowledge to work with the teaching of the Portuguese Language in face of linguistic variations; 3) Find out if the teacher receives pedagogical and documentary contribution of the educational network to his pedagogical practice in dealing with linguistic diversity; 4) Check if the pedagogical and documentary contribution of the educational network presents a sociolinguistic approach. This research aimed to analyze the pedagogical and documentary contribution offered by the Municipal Secretariat of Manaus, in this case, the Portuguese Language Curriculum Proposal from the 6th to the 9th year and the Continuing Education Plan. In addition to the documents analyzed, two questionnaires were applied and interviews were conducted with six Portuguese-speaking teachers from three different locations, two teachers from rural area, two from urban-center área and two from urban-periphery zone. In the results, I found that one of the main challenges faced by teachers, besides the need for a continuous education that meets the real needs and issues related to the Curricular Proposal is the theoretical fragility, because in some speeches still surrounds the myth of " Right and wrong ", instead of talking about the appropriate and inadequate, as well as confusion between variation of record and dialectal variation, or to relate linguistic variation only to regional differences. I noticed that normative grammar is still traditionally taught, including those interviewed with more linguistic and sociolinguistic knowledge.