Análise linguística de textos literários em livros didáticos do ensino fundamental utilizados na educação de jovens e adultos (EJA)

Abstract

This dissertation aims to make a critical and purposeful analysis of linguistic analysis questions in the context of literary texts in the Portuguese textbook called Caminhar e Transformar, which is used by students in Finals Years of the Elementary School in Youth and Adult Education (2nd Segment ), approved by the National Program of Didactic Book EJA 2014 and currently adopted in public schools in Fortaleza - Ceará. The analysis is performed based on functionalist assumptions and under the guidelines of official documents of the Brazilian Education (PCN: Secondary School, Curriculum Proposal for the EJA EF-2nd segment, PNLD-EJA). It uses the distinction proposed by Halliday, McIntosh and Strevens (1974) between the three types of education or language approach, namely, descriptive, prescriptive and productive approach. It also considers reflections guided by theoretical assumptions of linguistic Functionalism and Text Linguistics on grammar teaching which are present in Neves (2011, 2013), Antunes (2003, 2007, 2014), Nogueira (2010) and Travaglia ( 2001), and the meaning of the practice of linguistic analysis based on authors such as Geraldi (1997) and Bezerra and Reinaldo (2014). The corpus of analysis of this study consisted of questions of the Portuguese book that bring together two essential characteristics: address a linguistic aspect and using a literary text. After a quantitative and qualitative analysis, it was found that in the questions of linguistic analysis in the context of literary texts, there is a predominance of descriptive approach manifested by an emphasis on identification exercises and classification of language units (grammatical nomenclature) with consequent lack of coordination between linguistic phenomena and specifically literary texts, which features a conservative trend (Traditional) in the study of mother tongue. Along the qualitative analysis of the book activities, we suggest possible approaches that articulate language resources used in literary texts and the construction of the senses and effects.