Proposta curricular para o ensino de português como segunda língua para surdos: possibilidades e desafios para a implementação da proposta

Abstract

In 2021, the federal government published the document entitled “Curricular Proposal for the Teaching of Portuguese as a Second Language for the Deaf”. This proposes a teaching trajectory for the learning of Portuguese in the written modality by deaf users of Libras and presents a Framework of Reference for Teaching Portuguese to the Deaf. This research sought to investigate the reaction to this document by a group of teachers of deaf students from two schools in the southern region of Rio Grande do Sul. Five teachers from schools for the deaf were selected to take part. These teachers had the desired profile in terms of training and school grade and agreed to be interviewed using Google meet. A Google meet was required due to the need for social distancing imposed by the covid-19 Pandemic. So a descriptive qualitative research was carried out, composed of an analytical stage, in order to examine the Curricular Proposal in terms of its theoretical assumptions. This was followed by a semi-structured interview with the professionals, who, after reading the same document, gave their impressions of it and its characteristics. Content analysis was used to analyze the data produced in the interviews. The results were split into eight categories based on the recurrences of given words or expressions, grouped by overall meaning. It is noteworthy that this research had the objective of verifying the understanding by the teachers being interviewed, whilst they discussed the feasibility of the proposal. This led to the forming of notes for it’s the future use of the purposed method. The results point to likely challenges with regard to attempting to implement the proposal, such as: the need for continuing education for professionals; the need for teachers of Portuguese for the deaf to be fluent in Libras; the need to adapt the material for different socio-educational contexts; as well as the need for its greater dissemination within the national perimeter.