A gramática dos manuais de português do 7.º ano: verbos operatórios e tarefas

Abstract

This study, within the scope of Pedagogical Linguistics, aims to analyze grammatical items from the Portuguese manual Entre Palavras project, from the 7th year, which is part of the school course book manual and the activity notebook. The theoretical framework is based on the grammatical aspect contemplated in school manuals, in the summative assessment tests of Basic Education, and in external assessment tests, being motivated by the following question: how are the command verbs of the items on morphology present in school manuals of 7th grade Portuguese show the complexity of the cognitive operations to be carried out by the students? A corpus with one hundred morphology items was gathered and, through an interpretative approach, three procedures were used to analyze the results: i) identification of the operative verbs present in the tasks and cognitive operations; ii) analysis of grammatical contents associated with verbs; iii) inventory of the main syntactic properties of utterances that contain alternative structures. The data obtained demonstrate that the tasks of the statements validate a very restricted set of operations, which is associated with two verbs with a high frequency of use - "indicate" and "identify" -, which are dominant in the corpus. These activate operations related to the identification, classification, and reproduction of grammatical knowledge rather than synthesis and application to new situations.