Análise do adjetivo no livro didático do 6º ano do ensino fundamental.

Abstract

The textbook is a very important document to the student's formation, once it is the teaching material chosen and is often the only material used by the teacher. This work has its main ob- jective to analyze the treatment given by the textbook of the 6º grade Vontade de saber portu- guês of the Elementary School to the word adjective. Therefore, it is explained about the name adjective starting from the postulate of Jr. Câmara Jr. as well as other authors, we were able to verify the presence of the adjective in the textbook and described how the adjective is elaborated in the textbook selected as the corpus. In this direction, in the fundaments of Câmara Jr. (2011), without desconsidering authors that share the same structuralist perspec- tive. Between the collection Vontade de saber português, made of four books, the selected corpus of our research is the textbook of the 6th grade. This work is about the documentary research of a quantitative-qualitative nature. Based on the investigation, the conclusion is that only 7% of the textbook activities operate with the adjective, while 93% focus on other grammatical aspects. These 7% analyzed handle the name adjective, utilizing the criteria of vocable classification adopted especially by Câmara Jr. (2011) embracing significate re- sources and strategies significant to the learning.