DIDACTIC CIRCUIT FOR UNDERSTANDING RELATIVE PRONOUNS IN ELEMENTARY EDUCATION
Relative pronoun, Linguistic skills, discursive genders
This dissertation outlines the steps of a theoretical-didactic research study on the teaching and learning of relative pronouns in an eighth-grade class of Elementary School. The aim is initially to develop a reflection on the use of these pronouns in different linguistic and discursive contexts, based on normative grammars (Bechara, 2005; Cunha & Cintra, 2008; Rocha Lima, 2007), on linguistic research and Portuguese grammar books.This procedure is justified by the interest in showing future readers of this dissertation that the use of relative pronouns, as described by Traditional Grammar and, consequently, as presented in Portuguese Language textbooks as a guide for teaching in schools, only occurs in rare situations, being the result of close monitoring from the perspective of this grammar. Therefore, the natural scenario is a linguistic reality different from the one schools attempt to teach.The hypothesis is that the use of relative pronouns is related to discourse genres. For this reason, this text will also present principles of dialogism in language (Bakhtin, 2006).The primary objective, therefore, is to promote, based on reflections about relative pronouns and discourse genres, actions related to this teaching object that develop students’ linguistic skills. The secondary objectives are related to the way these actions are articulated. First, the goal is to understand the use of these pronouns in linguistic situations monitored under the perspective of the so-called standard norm. In a second moment, the aim is to understand the reality of their use in events, especially those involving orality.This procedure thus serves as the basis for preparing a didactic circuit, for eighth-grade students, that relates these two uses of the relative pronoun. From this understanding, it is expected that students will be led to build differentiated strategies that facilitate the comprehension of the topic. In this way, the intention is to help students understand the teaching object in light of what traditional grammar advocates, but also to lead them to understand that the way they themselves use these pronouns is also legitimate. The results will positively impact the text production of the research participants and, consequently, may facilitate the interaction between these students and the people they live with.