Oralidade em redações escolares: proposta de intervenção para os erros de ortografia

Abstract

The National Curriculum Parameters for Portuguese Language (1997, 1998) alert that the traditional study of orthography in classrooms is fulfilled with the practice of exercises in formula repetition and in the correction of students’ spelling. This methodology, however, has proved little productive, since the compositions of students in the final years of primary school, as well as secondary school, still show many spelling mistakes. The orthography teaching-learning process lacks, therefore, a method that helps the students to recognize the conventions established by the Portuguese system of spelling and to be conscious of their own pronunciation, since, although there are different ways to pronounce words, only one notation was stipulated for the written form. Based on the works of Bisol (2001), Bortoni-Ricardo (2004, 2013), Cagliari (2003), Camara Jr. (2008, 2015), Lamprecht et al (2004, 2012), Lemle (2001), Morais (2005, 2008), Roberto (2016), Silva (2008), Seara et al (2011), Soares (1992) and Spinelli and Ferrand (2009), this research approaches the orality-motivated spelling difficulties faced by 9th grade students in a public school. This is an action research, whose data will be evaluated quantitatively and qualitatively. The objectives of this research are: i) identifying the types and frequency of spelling difficulties present in the writing of 9th grade students; ii) proposing activities for the treatment of the main spelling difficulties present in those students’ writing; and iii) evaluating the effectiveness of the intervention actions used in the treatment of the spelling mistakes that were identified. To that effect, a diagnosis of the most frequent spelling mistakes was carried out through compositions and evaluative questions, and the results showed monophthongization as the most common mistake. Later, a sequence of activities was proposed for the treatment of that mistake, which was followed by an evaluation through the repetition of the diagnosis procedures, now as a post-test. As a result, it was evidenced that the intervention applied, based on the reflection on the Portuguese system of spelling and on the students’ dialect and oral productions, contributed to reduce the incidence of the spelling mistakes that were the target of treatment.