Estratégias de produção da escrita acadêmica de mestrandos e doutorandos surdos

Abstract

The present dissertation aimed to understand and discuss the production of academic writing of deaf masters and doctoral students, users of Libras as L1. For these academics, Portuguese is considered a second language in a second modality, that is, L2M2. For this investigation, the methodology chosen was qualitative, with the main objective of understanding the academic writing strategies produced by graduate students. Three deaf masters and three doctors, professors at Higher Education Institutions, were interviewed. The interviews were conducted by videoconference in Libras and were later transcribed into Portuguese. Data were grouped into four categories: 1) the presence of TILS in the Graduate Program; 2) the experience with the advisor; 3) the role of the school; and 4) the writing production process. The interviewees evidenced, in their reports, the difficulty of guarantees of linguistic rights in Graduate Programs, given that they need to pay Libras Interpreters Translators to have their academic productions translated and revised, given that Interpreters are available only during class times. In addition, they report the fragility of Portuguese teaching in schools, which do not prepare them in Academic Literacy. It was understood that one of the main academic text production strategies is via video production, either to organize ideas, in a particular way, or to communicate with the Libras Translator and Interpreter. They refer as positive the fact that sign language and deaf culture are present in the academic environment. The data allow us to understand the need to improve the teaching of Portuguese in bilingual schools for the deaf and to extend the working time of Libras Translators and Interpreters in postgraduate studies.