Oralidade e escrita: uma análise do trabalho em sala de aula.

Abstract

The relationship between speech and writing has always been a subject of several reviews. In the early linguistic studies, it was believed that these arrangements were totally opposite, among them there was no relationship, they were seen as two different linguistic systems. The speech was seen as a whole "disorganized", and the writing characterized as the correct way of using the language, called standard norm. Nowadays much is said of the relationship between speaking and writing. In recent years research lines developed in linguistics, discourse supported in Bakhtin's studies on language are enabling a study of speaking facing social practices, presenting the role it plays in the relationships of interaction. From this perspective, the use of oral modality in the classroom has been discussed more every day. Throughout this paper, I propose to introduce the similarities and differences between oral and written modalities, aiming to present what the main theories point on speaking and submit work proposals presented by the National Curriculum Parameters (NCPs) and to show how the school has been working with speaking and writing in Portuguese Language classes. Basing on a social interactionist perspective of language, presenting speaking and writing as complementary modalities, has no superiority over another. I propose to show that writing is not a representation of speech and that speaking can and must be taught in the classroom.