Eles fala, nois cala: como a escola tem enfrentado o desafio de ensinara oralidade a seus alunos

Abstract

The 1996 Law of Guidelines and Bases democratized the teaching in Elementary and High school grades, instituting gratuitousness and compulsion, bringing to the School representatives of the unprivileged social classes with its multiplicity of linguistic variations that distinguish them in a stigmatizing way. However, the School, holder of the cultural heritage and of its almost exclusive transfer, followed giving privilege to writing, and neglecting a didatic work based by sociolinguistic principles. As a consequence, orality, in spite of its centrality in intercommunicacional events, has found itself relegated to exiguous spaces in Portuguese Language teaching and in didactical compendiums. However, impositions on contemporaneity have mobilized educational agencies and theorists from several areas to give a new dimension to the question. Consistently to this new look, this paper demonstrated the possibility to implement a linguistic variation pedagogy. To confirmthis assertion, I carried outan action-research with a didactic praxis composed of specific, regular actions, called “Orality workshops”, developed during the year of 2012, in a municipal of low middle class and in a federal school in the first semester of the year of 2013, both in the brazilian city of Juiz de Fora (MG), with students from the fifth grade. The activities had given the opportunity to students to use the resources from the cultured varieties of the language in oral form, being this development of competences understood as an action of empowerment (Foucault, 2007).The proposal had guided by the Sociolinguistic presuppositions related and legitimated by linguistic heterogeneity, understanding language as a social, political and cultural entity. It was composed of didactic works that contemplate several oral genres of a greater social penetration. The distance on the cultured norms, practiced by the students, as evidenced in these activities, was detailed recorded, analyzed, categorized, providing material for further didacticexercises. The research had been realized with the partnershipwith the teachers of Portuguese Language of the two researched classes, based most punctually on the theories supported by Bagno (2010), Faraco (2008), Gadotti (1979), Koch and Elias (2011), Marcuschi (2005), Mollica (2007), Bortoni-Ricardo (2011). As a proposal of the last author, we had used the three continua that propose an analysis from the three axes: rural / urban; orality / literacy; stylistic monitoring. The results from the research had pointed to a positive evaluation on the learning of the cult linguistic norm: the involvement, with significant interest, in the proposed activities; enlargement of the capacity of students' reflections about linguistic variations and their social, historical and cultural conditioning; the appropriation of the guiding concepts of the three continua; the acquisition and the use of the cultured orality resources.