Variação linguística e ensino: o fenômeno da concordância verbal no sexto ano do ensino fundamental de uma escola pública de Orlândia-SP

Abstract

This research was developed on the Professional Master’s degree in Portuguese (Profletras) at the “Universidade Federeal do Triângulo Mineiro” (UFTM), Uberaba Campus, promoted by CAPES. That researched the phenomenon of verbal agreement (subject – verb) on the first and third persons in texts produced by students of the sixth grade at a middle school in the town of Orlândia, Sao Paulo State. In addition, based on the result of these analyses, to produce a support content destined to students, which helps on the consideration and comprehension of this verbal agreement (CV). In that case, we developed and applied an essay proposal to the students participating on the research. Based on a written production, it was observed the lack and the presence of the CV marks, taking into consideration the linguist facts, proposed by Naro and Lemle (1977), Rodrigues (1987), Naro and Scherre (1999), Nero and Scherre (2003), Monte (20120 and Vieira and Brandão (2014). Who stated them as: position of the subject, distance between the noun phrase and the verb, the subject`s animacy, the degree of the phonetic salience, lack or presence of the pronominal subject and the lack or presence of the relative pronoun “QUE”. After the analyses, and based on the results, as an intervention proposal, there was the collaboration of a reflexive activities notebook about this grammatical phenomenon. Some of the activities developed were applied during the Portuguese classes of the sixth grade; its application was described in this dissertation. Our aim was to show clearly that the activities notebook produced can contribute to the teacher`s daily work in the classroom and complement the teaching tools used by the students during their Portuguese classes.