NASCIMENTO, Andreza Figueiredo do.
Resumen:
The present work deals with the historical aspects of orthography considering the
evolution from the Classic Latin, passing through the Vulgar Latin, Galician-
Portuguese, Archaic Portuguese until contemporary Portuguese. For this, we have as
a general objective to analyze the historical evolution of Portuguese orthography to
understand how these changes are significant for the effective teaching of
orthography. In this sense, we defined as specific objectives: to describe the
orthographic transformations that occurred during the expansion of the Roman
Empire until the arrival in Iberian Peninsula; to know the three periods by which the
orthography of the Portuguese language has changed: the phonetic, the pseudo-
etymological and simplified; and to suggest possibilities of contextualized teaching of
orthography, considering the aspects of regularities and irregularities of the language.
The research is qualitative as it does not intend to quantify data to obtain results, and
it is bibliographical, since it is based on works already published. As a theoretical
apparatus we anchor in Coutinho (2011), Cardeira (2005) and Gonçalves (2007) to
deal with the history of the Latin language and the historical processes of
transformation of the Portuguese language; Bagno (2007) with the historical and
social perspective of mother tongue teaching; and Morais (2008) and Monteiro
(2008) with instructions directed to the Portuguese teacher regarding the teaching of
orthography. Thus, through these theoretical conceptions that enrich the research
about our language, we intend to suggest possible teaching approaches that
consider the previous knowledge of the students, taking into account also the entire
evolutionary and historical process of orthography in the school environment.