Análise dos processos de flexão e derivação do substantivo no livro didático do 6º ano do ensino fundamental.

Abstract

The objective of this study is to analyze how a textbook works with the noun inflection and derivation processes. To do so, we elaborate a theoretical basis starting from notes about the textbook, ending with the concepts and criteria of flexion and derivation established by Mattoso (2004). Then, we verified if the 6th year of Elementary School textbook dealt with the noun inflection and derivation processes; after this, we examine the concepts worked on it; and later we describe how it treats noun inflection and derivation processes. The theoretical framework of this study was Descriptive Structuralism based on the discussions of Mattoso (2004) regarding flexion and derivation of the noun; Coast; Freitag; Motta (1993) when we pointed out some considerations about the use of the textbook and its functions; as well as in the Parâmetros Curricularees Nacionais (PCN, 1998) and in the Base Nacional Comum Curricular (BNCC), when we focused on the linguistic analysis and the objectives of Portuguese language teaching for Elementary School, not mentioning other authors who follow this strand and that helped us with their theories. This is a quantitative-qualitative documentary research. The research universe was the four textbooks of PORTUGUÊS LINGUAGENS collection. From this universe, we selected as corpus of analysis the book of the 6th year destined to elementary students. The categories of analysis were the criteria of regularity/irregularity, agreement/non-agreement, non-optionality/optionality that define the noun inflection and derivation processes according to Mattoso (2004). The analysis result indicated that 29% of the textbook activities work inflection or derivation of the noun in a complete way, which corresponds to 07 activities, 21% work incompletely, which corresponds to 05 activities, and 50% do not work the noun inflection and derivation processes. From this result, we consider that there is a low percentage of effectiveness related to linguistic analysis of the referred processes.