Acentuação gráfica na produção escrita de alunos do 8º ano do ensino fundamental

Abstract

The present dissertation is developed in the research line "Theories of Language and Teaching" of the Professional Master's Program in Letters - PROFLETRAS of the State University of Piauí-UESPI and has as its theme the performance of the 8th grade students of a school State of Parnaíba - Piauí, about the graphical accentuation of the words oxytone, paroxitone and proparoxytone according to the standard norm of Brazilian Portuguese. The graphical accentuation in the perspective of normative grammar is guided by the excessive prescription of rules, which makes teaching-learning mechanical, unsystematic, without reflecting on the language and ineffective. Thus, the purpose of this work is to investigate the linguistic performance of students in the 8th year of elementary school, in terms of graphic accentuation, according to the standard norm in their textual productions, and, more specifically, to develop a teaching proposal that contributes to The development of linguistic performance related to the conscious use of graphical accentuation. In order to reach the proposed objectives, a descriptive, qualitative and field research was carried out. The authors of the present study were: Zorzi (1998), Simões (2003, 2006), Cagliari (2002, 2009), Ferreiro and Teberosky (1985), Ferreiro (2000), Sim-Sim ), Teberosky and Colomer (2003), Bechara (1986), Chomsky & Halle (1968), Jr. Chamber (1991, 2008), Lee (1994, 1995), Bisol (1992, 1994, 2005), Massini-Cagliari 1995), Liberman and Prince (1995, 1977), Halle and Vergnaud (1987), Collischonn (1995), Hayes (1995), Quednau and Collischonn (2006), Jacobs (1994, 1999, 2000) among others. It is observed that the cases in which the rules were not complied with seem to stem from the language itself and the cognitive processes involved in the uses the speaker practices, which confirmed the hypothesis that the standard language should be taught at school From the interrelationship of normative grammar with the presuppositions of phonology and phonetics, a study of the evolution of the accent in Latin and of the prosody of the Portuguese language and its importance as a propitiating factor for the existence of linguistic variety in the accentual pattern of Portuguese. Thus, it is justified to draw up a proposal for intervention that favors reflection on the use of graphical accentuation since access to the standard language standard, accompanied by clarifications on a theoretical basis, expands the linguistic performance of the students, leading to the development of cognitive skills so that students are able to make conscious use of these rules in spelling.