Variação discursiva e ensino de língua portuguesa: conectores em textos narrativos escritos

Abstract

In this paper, I show that research on discursive variables is an excellent source of information for the analysis of discursive items in basic level schools. The examples come from research on connectors E and AÍ. Sociolinguistic studies (ABREU, 1992; GÖRSKI; TAVARES, 2003; FREITAG et al., 2013, among others) reported problems in the use of these connectors in texts written by students of different school levels. On the one hand, there is a tendency for a high frequency of AI in texts written by individuals in the early stages of schooling. On the other hand, there is a tendency for a high frequency of E in texts written by individuals with higher levels of schooling. Based on these findings, I offer suggestions for approaching connectors in basic education, divided into three axis: (i) experiencing and linguistic analysis, (ii) sociolinguistic evaluation, (iii) application in text production. I argue that adopting a sociolinguistic grounding for teaching Portuguese language allows us to explore in depth morphosyntactic, semantic-pragmatic and stylistic features of discursive items.