Orientações de gramática descritiva na olimpíada de língua portuguesa.

Abstract

Most of the teaching materials provided for the teaching of Portuguese in Basic Education develop activities according to the guidelines of normative grammar. These guidelines, although necessary, do not always contribute effectively to the promotion of practices aimed at reflecting on the functioning of language in real communicative situations. The absence of contextualized activities implies a reductionist view that understands language teaching as equivalent to normative-prescriptive teaching. In this article, we analyze the work with descriptive grammar in the guidelines for activities on linguistic knowledge in the Points of View notebook, which intends to discuss the opinion article genre, on the Portuguese Language Olympiad. The methodology is inductive, descriptive, qualitative and its approach is based on Applied Linguistics and it has a documentary nature. The research results show that the descriptive grammar work proposed by the analyzed material contributes to the development of students' reading and writing skills, revealing a language vision focused on uses.