O trabalho com variação linguística, na EJA do ensino médio, à luz da BNCC

Abstract

This research has as general objective to discuss, at BNCC, how the approach of linguistic variation in the Young and Older Adults Education modality in Secondary ou Postelementary level akes place, verifying if and how that document promotes teaching of linguistic variation at this level of education. We adopted as a theoretical foundation the variationist theory of Labov (2008) and the discussions about language and power in society, in addition to reflections of Bagno (2003, 2009) and Bortoni-Ricardo (2003, 2005) on teaching of mother tongue. Our research is of an indirect, qualitative and applied documentary nature and, to carry it out, we observed the number of occurrences, in the BNCC, of the terms "variation", "variety", "record", "style", "dialect" and " change”, which classify the types of linguistic variation, according to Bagno (2020, p. 46). We found that, of the 68 times these terms appears in the document, only 16 are related to variationist theory, according to the classifications and theoretical studies that support our work. Despite being registered in the section dedicated to the area of Languages and their Technologies, of these 16, only nine occurences are in the section dedicated to the Portuguese Language. The results point to the need to broaden the spectrum of approach to linguistic variation in BNCC, otherwise we are denying students essential knowledge that will help them understand and accept their and other modes of linguistic manifestations, understanding the language in all its diversity and dynamics.