Literatura brasileira no ensino de Português como língua não materna: propostas didáticas

Abstract

Literature, besides developing the imaginative capacity and being an artistic form of entertainment, carries within itself an extensive bagage of the languages, the histories and the cultures of civilizations. To comprehend a literature related to a society or produced by it is, simultaneously, infering perceptions on its history, its culture and its social relations and, thus, analyzing its peculiarities, its flaws, its problems and its developments. In the Brazilian context, the background of the narratives and the verses, present in poetry, books, tales and chronicles, reveals the social reality in which the country is experiencing. Thus, the transparence of the Brazilian literature can be used as an alternative to the teaching of Portuguese as a non-native language, as a second language and for the knowledge of cultural and historical matters of Brazil. It is essential to emphasize, also, that the suggestions presented in this undergraduate thesis regarding the teaching of the language and culture are focused on students with intermediary or advanced proficiency in Brazilian Portuguese, for the texts selected here require a better comprehension of the language. In this teaching proposal, we used two short-stories, two chronicles and two poems, written by Brazilian authors, that portray the particularities of our daily lives, our language, our habits, our cultures and our history, such as Luís Fernando Veríssimo, Rubem Fonseca, Machado de Assis, Gonçalves Dias and Oswald de Andrade. Furthermore, we used, as theoretical contributions, Selbach (2010), Santos & Alvarez (2010), Mascia (2003), Cândido (1996/2006) and Cosson (2009), as well as academic research sources that have significantly contributed to the development of this overture.