Conhecimentos sobre língua portuguesa em concursos públicos de nível médio.

Abstract

This study comes from a research in which aimed to investigate the required knowledges about Portuguese language in public tenders in Brazilian northeast, as well as the relation between the acquired knowledges and the aim of the tender. The research, in which derived the clipping presented in this study, focused on Security and Health areas and the functions of policeman and technical assistant, respectively. The analysis objects were the public notice and the Portuguese language written test questions of six public tenders from 2018 in five states in Brazilian northeast. In this study we present results of this clipping, aiming to answer the following question: which knowledges about language are required by public tenders through public notices and tests, and by which theoretical approach? The theoretical support of this study is based on philosophic studies about knowledge building and school syllabus. The analysis results showed that the knowledges evaluated in the Portuguese language test in public tenders for high schooled contestants in areas such Security and Health refer to the axis Linguistic Analysis and Grammar, Linguistics and Textuality and Reading, highlighting a cognitive approximation considering the object of knowledge required by the evaluation between Grammatical Tradition and Descriptive Linguistics.