THE SONG LYRICS IN PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE CLASSES: A TEACHING PROPOSAL FOR YOUTH AND ADULTS EDUCATION (EJA)
Teaching. Portuguese Language. Genre Lyric Song. Teaching Sequence. Youth and Adults Education.
This intervention work emerged from the need to seek methodological alternatives aimed at Youth and Adult Education (EJA, in Portuguese) in order to enable a more suitable learning method for students who fit in this category. To this end, we set out from the following research questions: 1) How to teach Portuguese Language to EJA students using song lyrics in a meaningful way? 2) How can the genre song lyrics be inserted into an intervention project in such a way as to contribute to the improvement of EJA students' learning processes? 3) How to provide EJA students with new learning methods that can overcome cognitive questions while respecting their knowledge? In order to answer these questions, we started using the genre song lyrics as a possible way to build learning methods that go beyond the mastery of reading and writing skills, challenging the subjects towards a critical understanding of reality that aims at social transformation. Therefore, the general objective of our work consists of creating a Portuguese Language teaching proposal for the Education of Youth and Adults using this textual genre. In this regard, the specific objectives of the research are: i) developing an intervention project for EJA based on song lyrics; ii) developing teaching sequences aimed at working with reading, writing, and studying the language by using critical-reflexive song lyrics. As theoretical basis, we used: The National Curriculum Parameters (BRASIL, 1998), Geraldi (2015), and Santos (2012) in order to put the teaching of Portuguese Language in EJA into context due to the need of understanding the juncture in which the research subjects are inserted based on the historical formation surrounding the teaching of a first language. We also adopted Zabala's (1998) approach to teaching sequences as our methodological choice; and Costa (2002) regarding the relevance of the literary text under the form of the genre song lyrics in Portuguese Language teaching; in addition to Freire's (1978; 1979; 1991; 2018) contributions concerning the work aimed at young and adult students based on the pursuit of a more righteous, democratic and solidary society. The methodology has an interpretivist and interventionist nature that presents general assumptions concerning the research at issue. The intervention took place in a 4th grade EJA classroom at the Municipal School Professora Terezinha Paulino de Lima, located in the Northern Zone of the city of Natal, RN. As to the results, we highlighted the Portuguese Language teaching proposal for Youth and Adults Education and the teaching sequences that use the genre lyric song as products of research, as well as significant improvement of the reading and writing proficiency of the participating students through the collaborative learning processes developed from the implementation of these teaching sequences.