Vontade de saber português : uma análise da variação linguística no livro didático

Abstract

This paper presents an investigation of the treatment of language variation in the textbook Vontade de saber Português by Rosemeire Alves and Tatiane Brugnerotto, which is a book for the 6th year of elementary school used in the city of Mossâmedes-GO. As a basis for this research we use the fundamentals of sociolinguistics, more specifically the fundamentals of language variation or educational sociolinguistics. To this end, we use Antunes (2014), Bagno (2007, 2013), Bortoni-Ricardo (2004), Calvet (2002), Cesario; Votre (2008), Faraco (2008) and Travaglia (2009). Ours is a bibliographical study, whose object is the textbook, with the support of specialized literature. The results of the study of the treatment of language variation in the textbook Vontade de Saber Português show that such treatment is insufficient. Since the only source the teacher uses for the Portuguese classes is usually the course material, we highlight that such material must be committed to training linguistically competent citizens.