FROM THE STUDY TO THE TEACHING OF GRAMMAR IN THE WORKS OF MÁRIO PERINI
(1986 [1985]; 2003 [1995]; 2016)
Grammar. Teaching. Portuguese language. Mário Perini
Grammar, as we know it traditionally, is not recent as well as the challenges and difficulties faced, in the classroom, related to the teaching and learning of grammatical content, in the discipline of Portuguese Language. In view of this, it is emphasized that traditional grammar remains unscathed and circulating (especially in the school system), even in the face of profound theoretical, methodological and empirical changes, through which the study of verbal language has passed since the 17th century. Despite all the criticism to which it has been subjected, it is still naturalized in the discourse and operations of linguistics. Given this, based on the profound changes that the study of language has undergone, although it contains flaws, grammar has played a relevant role in the studies of an aspect of linguistic reality. Faced with this challenging panorama and the criticisms related to the flaws found in grammar and teaching and attentive to the challenges of the reality of teaching work, with regard to the teaching of grammar, and more specifically, in the western region of Pará, in the Amazon, inspired by Simelp /2013, the Group of Linguistic Studies of the West of Pará (Gelopa), created the project: “Language, grammar, variation and teaching”, and together with it develops, since 2017, the subproject: “Analysis of grammars written by Brazilian linguists”. Thus, the studies and research developed by Gelopa seek to answer four guiding questions: What is grammar?; What is teaching grammar?; Why teach grammar?; and How to teach grammar?. This project includes this research, which seeks to answer the questions from the analysis of the grammatical works of Mário A. Perini: Para uma nova gramática do português (1986 [1985]), Gramática descritiva do português (2003 [1995]) and Gramática descritiva do Português Brasileiro (2016). Thus, in the first moment, it analyzes the occurrences of the term “grammar” in the PCN and BNCC, then presents a summary of the research carried out by Gelopa, so far; then made a brief description of Perini's works under analysis, and, after seeking to answer the proposed questions, presents a synthesis with the answers of Gelopa's research, and concludes by highlighting that the author proposes a reformulation in grammar studies and language teaching, so that it contributes to the scientific and intellectual formation of students.