O espetáculo vai começar... estudo da oralidade através de improvisações teatrais

Abstract

Language is one of the main resources for thought construction for playing and for human being immersion in this world Thus it plays an important role in this paper specially the oral language This thesis aims at investigating how children enrolled in the 5th grade of the Ensino Fundamental in a public school in Fortaleza build stratetegies for meaning formulation on the dicoursive topic through the perspective of orality They were asked to perform a fairy tale role playing improvisation The qualitative research had the participation of 24 children with age between 10 and 11 The data collection process which was carried out in September and October 2008 presented the following phases: classroom observation and interaction with children in dynamic activities stoytelling – “witch Salomé” short story discussion and role playing improvisation The data was recorded in audio and video The improvisation of the scenes consists of microplays in which children elaborated dilaogues based on 7 triggering situations two of them following no instructions from the researcher and 5 were driven activities From these role playings improvisations a corpus consisting of 9 microplays was analized concerning discoursive topic introduction, the strategies for recapturing it and the repetitions used for the topic progression in the process of oral text construction in groups The results showed that the participants introduced the discoursive topic used textual strategies with the purpose of reformulating and recapturing the topic assumed sociocultural elements as authorial marks for textual progression These results assure that the language use stimulate its development and school appears to be a fertile environment to the orality development once it offers a huge potential for discoursive linguistic playful and creative ampliation In this regard theatrical activities reinforce the learning progress through art inclusion in the education