DIDACTIC CIRCUIT FOR UNDERSTANDING RELATIVE PRONOUNS IN ELEMENTARY EDUCATION
Relative pronoun, Linguistic skills, discursive genders
This qualification text outlines the steps of a theoretical-didactic survey on the teaching and learning of relative
pronouns in an eight-year elementary school class. The purpose is to, initially; develop a reflection on the use of these
pronouns in different linguistic and discursive contexts, based on standard grammar (Bechara, 2005, Cunha and
Cintra, 2008, Rocha Lima, 2007) and in linguistic research (Braga, Kato and Mioto, 2009; Tarallo, 1993; Silva and
Lopes, 2007 and Santos Silva, 2009). This procedure is justified by the interest in showing to future readers of this
dissertation that the use of relative pronouns, as the Traditional Grammar described and, consequently, as the
Portuguese Language textbooks present as a guide to teaching in schools, is only carried out in rare situations, being
a reflection on lots of monitoring from the perspective of this grammar. Thus, the natural way is a different linguistic
reality from what schools try to teach. The hypothesis is that the use of relative pronouns is related to discursive
genres. For this reason, principles of dialogism in language (Bakhtin, 2006) will also be presented in this text.
The primary objective is, thus, to promote, based on reflections on relative pronouns, discursive genres, and
actions related to this teaching object that develop the student's linguistic skills. The secondary ones relate to
how these actions are articulated. Firstly, the aim is to understand the use of these pronouns in linguistic
situations monitored from the perspective of the standard norm. Secondly, the aim is to understand the reality of
their use in events, especially oral events. This procedure, therefore, forms the basis for preparing a didactic
circuit for eighth graders that relates these two uses of the relative pronoun. Based on this understanding, it is
expected that the students will be led to construct distinctive strategies that make it easier to understand the
subject. This way, the aim is to get students to understand the teaching object in question, based on what the
grammatical tradition says, but also to get them to understand that the use they make of these pronouns is also
legitimate.