A constituição do ensino de língua portuguesa na trilha de documentos oficiais do Rio Grande do Sul: conhecimento e perspectivas

Abstract

This study investigates the current process and structure of Portuguese Language teaching in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, based on three official documents published in the 1990‟s and in the first decade of the 21st century, in order to identify which guidelines have been adopted through official channels for the purposes of teaching. Besides this main objective, we looked for specific objectives: identifying the context and the conditions of production in which these documents are inserted; understanding its theoretical and methodological basis and the conceptions of langue, language and language teaching advocated in the texts; verifying how the discursive voices which organize such discourse articulate; knowing what dialogic relations these texts hold among themselves; investigating what image of the Portuguese teacher is built by the official voice. In order to make this research, we based our theoretical and methodological presuppositions on studies of the Bakhtin Circle. In the speeches found within each document, it was possible to conclude, in general, that the guidelines for teaching Portuguese are based on the social interaction approach for langue and language, and on a teaching method focused on these conceptions, thus distinguishing this method from a traditional concept of this teaching. It was also possible to conclude that this orientation is guided mainly by economical, social and political purposes.