Phonetics and phonology at school: from restricted approaches to broad possibilities
Phonetics. Phonology. Textbook. Orthographic writing.
This research has as its object of study eight clippings from the Portuguese language textbook, Spheres of Languages, by the authors Maria Inês Batista Campos and Nivia Assumpção, in force in the 1st grade of High School at the Escola Estadual Professor Tertuliano Pinheiro Filho, in Barcelona-RN. The selected material allows an analytical-descriptive investigation, with the purpose of verifying, in it, the potential for the development of phonetic-phonological issues of the language and if this type of approach is in any way explored by the referred authors. The book consists of nine units and twenty-seven chapters divided, respectively, into three axes: Reading and literature; Text, discourse genre and production; and Language and language, there is a selection of the eight clippings – with the potential to discuss the phonetic-phonological constitution of the language – and subsequent identification of the contents effectively explored by the authors. In the absence or little depth of issues related to phonetics and phonology in the analyzed corpus, possibilities of exploration are established, considering the materials presented in the focused book. This dissertation, in its propositional bias, then launches the Activity Book, highlighting the teaching and learning of phonetics and phonology of the language - also in parallel with written records - as a means for the student to gain knowledge more in-depth knowledge of the language in spoken and written forms. The Notebook intends to supplement the pedagogical practice of the teacher in high school, in view of the understanding that phonetics and phonology involve basic discussions for the internalization of orthographic writing, in addition to integrating the language - having its own representatives and their possibilities of arrangements - as well as morphology and syntax – components of grammar most explored in teaching-learning. Both the analytical descriptive part of the dissertation and the propositional part are based on linguistic approaches, more specifically phonetic-phonological, and sociolinguistic ones, such as those found in Câmara Jr. (1972;1999), Cagliari (1999; 2005), Silva (2003) e Bagno (2008).