Portuguese language textbook: Where does grammar fit in the kingdom of text?

• Autor(a) principal: Maris, Mariana
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Vieira, Francisco Eduardo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Domínios de Lingu@gem
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/dominiosdelinguagem/article/view/70156
• topic: Livro didático; Ensino de língua portuguesa; Ensino de gramática; Gramática tradicional; Tradição sociodiscursiva; Textbook; Portuguese language teaching; Grammar teaching; Traditional grammar; Social discursive tradition

This article investigates the approach to grammatical knowledge in a Portuguese Language textbook designed for High School education and produced in accordance with the theoretical and methodological guidelines of the Brazilian National Common Core Curriculum. To this end, the study, situated in the field of Applied Linguistics, indicates both similarities and differences between the didactic proposal of the material with, on one hand, the epistemological guidelines of traditional grammar (cf. Vieira, 2020), and on the other hand, the pedagogical principles of the social discursive tradition (cf. Gueiros, 2019). The corpus of the work consists of the presentation of the book to the student and the teacher's manual, expository-argumentative sections in which the authors, in addition to summarizing the proposed curricular organization, explain the motivations and theoretical concepts that underlie it. The research has revealed a marginalization of traditional grammar among the teaching objects presented in the investigated book. The treatment of the few morphosyntactic phenomena mentioned by the authors seems to be always subordinate to the analysis of the textual and discursive macrostructure of the language, resulting in an unsystematic set of contents that are epistemologically disconnected from the conceptual and categorical network that links the knowledge of the grammatical tradition.