A análise funcionalista e o estabelecimento de quadros categoriais na gramática

Committed to a functionalist view of grammar, this study takes word classes as its object of analysis, aiming to show that categorical rigidity cannot be upheld in linguistic use. The analysis sample presented starts from the solutions of dictionaries in the registration of word classes parts and from the fluidity that these classes show in their use. Aspects of grammaticalization in Portuguese language are taken as evidence. It is argued that the grammatical organization of language has properties that support categorical shift processes, however singular they may seem to examination.

A gramática pela fábula ou: a fábula pela gramática

With the purpose of analyzing the function developed byt the fable, this paper begins with its definition, historically linked to the rhetorical art, the teaching force and the literary value, to reach a grammatical analysis of the narrative structure in which genre is presented. From the functionalist point of view, the function determines the structure, and, accordingly, this study shows the fable resolved in specific modes of activation of the utterance formation basic processes such as the establishment of predications and the creation of the referential network of its participants. Since the beginning, the discursive activation of properties is crucial, which, working toward specific goals, configure linguistic characteristics that define the specific nature of the fable

Categorização e multifuncionalidade: léxico e gramática

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Uma visão da gramática na vivência da linguagem

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Gramática: reflexões sobre um percurso de elaboração de manuais

As part of a round table entitled “Construction of descriptive grammars”, with authors of descriptive grammars of the Portuguese language, this text presents a personal refl ection that seeks to recover the key issues that have challenged me in this kind of work. In order to do this, I recover the historical route of the decisions I took in the construction of two manuals of Portuguese grammar and, at the same time, I gather, in other works I have written, information that can explain the guidelines adopted. Being consistent with my background and with my praxis, I offer some thoughts towards the fundamental proposition I have always considered such works to have, which is the school destination, something I can summarize in the question of what should constitute a work with the “grammar” at school.

O lugar da gramática nas diferentes abordagens ao ensino de inglês

Considering the fundamental importance of grammar in any modern language teaching proposal, the aim of this paper is to discuss how the different approaches to the teaching of English as a foreign language (EFL) have considered the role of grammar and the consequences to its teaching.

O papel da gramática numa proposta pedagógica baseada em gêneros discursivos

In the last decade, pedagogical proposals for language teaching that aimed at developing the students’ literacy have raised an important question regarding the elaboration of language teaching plans concerning the role of grammar. How should we treat the relationship grammar-text in this new perspective? The aim of this paper is to propose a way of integrating text and grammar in an English course plan for Information Technology (IT) students which gives priority to the reading ability. We have based our proposal on concepts from English for Specific Purpose (ESP) by focusing on reading and also on literacy and text gender studies.

Teorias democráticas diante da nova gramática de organização da sociedade e da relação entre o Estado e a sociedade

This article is about the democratic theoretical conceptions reformulated in face of the new social rules in which actors showed up claiming repressed social repressed from the second half of the XX century. In this article an approach of the main contributions of the dimensions of the conception of democracy. As a result, we present that the institutional innovations that came from a process of institutionalism of democracy have built a participative and inclusive ideal of social groups that so far were apart from the decision process in politics.

La enseñanza de la lengua española en cursos de profesorado a estudiantes brasileños:el foco en la gramática

Esta comunicación se enfoca en la enseñanza de la Lengua Española como Lengua Extranjera; en especial, en la enseñanza de la Gramática en cursos de Profesorado en Lengua Española en Brasil, los cuales suelen otorgar una doble titulación lingüística: los estudiantes se reciben de profesores de Lengua Portuguesa y de una Lengua Extranjera (LE), por ejemplo, Lengua Española. En estos cursos –y específicamente en la Faculdade de Ciências e Letras de Araraquara FCLAr y UNESP-, en la enseñanza de la Lengua Española, la gramática es trabajada de un modo lineal y secuencial, desde el primer año hasta el cuarto y último año de la carrera. En general, lo que se observa en el cuarto año, momento de la focalización en las estructuras morfosintácticas más avanzadas, es que todavía persisten dificultades lingüísticas de las estructuras básicas de uso y funcionamiento de la Lengua Española, lo cual implica un desplazamiento teórico-metodológico del quehacer didáctico del profesor, el cual tiene que adaptarse a las necesidades de cada grupo, una vez que el aprendizaje de la gramática es imprescindible en la formación de estos estudiantes en su formación académico-profesional. Utilizando el desarrollo de la reflexión crítica sobre el proceso de aprendizaje de la gramática de la Lengua Española/LE, articulado al trabajo futuro del estudiante como profesor, se pasa a trabajar con diversificadas estrategias didáctico-metodológicas, las cuales han resultado en un notable aprendizaje de la gramática, así como también en el rol de los actores en este proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje.