Conhecimento gramatical e desempenho lingüístico

Abstract

This article, besides being done with the aim to profound the knowledge about the topic, has as objective to present some concepts of grammar, according to normative or descriptive point of view. This duplicity of definitions and fields of envelopment has been the main reason of the pedagogical positions that disagree among them, “in behalf of” or “against” the teaching of grammar at schools, bringing damage to the teaching and to the student (citizen). As the grammarian and writers of the pedagogical books of the mother tongue many time they don’t consider this dichotomy of view of the grammar, the aims of the mother tongue teaching aren’t wholly obtained. The precarious way of the descriptive traditional grammar only has contributed to make worse the controverted topic, showing the need to follow the descriptive grammar by the advancement of the Linguistics. Observing the specific aims of the mother tongue in each of the three levels, the normative grammar teaching is necessary in Elementary School and in High school, and complementary at the University. The study of the descriptive grammar is the main topic of the Letters Course.