Ensino de libras para aprendizes ouvintes: a injunção e o espaço como dimensões ensináveis do gênero instrução de percurso.

Abstract

The aim of this dissertation is to extend research into the genre course instruction of sign language teaching by investigating the application of sign language (L2) teaching methodology for hearing students, using the genre course instruction. The specific objectives are: 1) to identify the definying characteristics of the genre course instruction; 2) to build a didactic model starting from the teaching points of the genre; 3) to observe the consequences of the application of the methodology in sign language teaching and learning as L2 for hearing students of level A1. The methodological and theoretical frameworks are based on sociodiscursive interactionism (SDI) in its two acting fields. The first field refers to the description of Genre, with the analytical model of genre focusing on the possibilities favouring text production, its architecture and textualization (BRONCKART, 1999), associating the description of spacialization and localization in sign language (FERREIRA, 2010; QUADROS; KARNOPP, 2004, among others). The second field, the didactic one, involves, on one side, language teaching guided by the notion of the didactic model of genre as well as its relevant teaching dimensions (DE PIETRO; SCHNEUWLY, [2003] 2009; MACHADO; CRISTÓVÃO, 2006), on the other side, language habilities (acting; discursive and linguistic-discursive habilities), involved in the comprehension and production of the genre (SCHNEUWLY; DOLZ, 2004; CARNIN; ALMEIDA, 2015). This is an exploratory action research, whose methodological procedures for collecting and generating data have consisted of the following tools: three course instructions in sign language created by the researcher and presented in videos for undergraduate hearing students of the courses Letras-Língua Portuguesa and Letras - Língua Inglesa [Modern Languages – Brazilian Portuguese and Modern Languages – English]; one written activity of reading answered by these students; and three course instructions in sign language created by the undergraduate students. The context of data generation was the discipline Sign Language of undergraduate courses at the Universidade Federal de Campina Grande [Federal University of Campina Grande], according to the law Decree number 5.626/2005. Results have shown the dimensions to teaching the injunctive sequence and space and personal demarcation as relevant. The notion of didactic model has proven to be important to the development of language habilities, having been indicated that in the activity of comprehension and production these habilities have been mostly used. One relevant drawback that must be called attention in teaching the genre is the linguistic-discursive capacity of sign language concerning the orientation of spacialization during the development of the course.