Língua Portuguesa: incluir e participar para exercer a cidadania

Abstract

This study was carried out in the Federal Agrotechnical School of São João Evangelista - Minas Gerais (EAFSJE - MG) with twenty-six students from the third year of vocational high school in the Agricultural and Feeding technical courses in the year of 2007, with the cooperation and participation of three teachers. As a Portuguese Language teacher, for 15 years in teaching pursuit, we have been worried about the teaching/learning which involves this discipline, in particular the one that happens in the mentioned school. In the daily practice of teaching, we have lived with the contradiction established between the real school and the desired one with the teaching-learning that prioritizes the standard dialect, however it does not provide a meaningful learning in which students can get prepared for a change, in other words, allowing access to the writing and to the speeches that are organized from it. The methodological path used was based on a descriptive and qualitative research; the case study. The search tools used were: questionnaire, Education Plan, writing production at two distinct times; in the third year of the Selective Process/2005 and 2008. The study emphasizes that teaching of Portuguese Language should be reflected to meet the purpose of literacy, in which the student may have a different social and cultural situation of his/hers at the school enrollment.