Challenges of the textbook of Portuguese Language: teaching the usage of diminutive through texts.

Abstract

This work analyzes how the Portuguese language textbook of the Teláris Project approved in the 2012 PNLD (National Textbook Program, in the Portuguese acronym) addresses the use of the diminutive in the volume of the 6th grade. The corpus of this work, therefore, consists in the texts and activities presented in two of the units of volume 1 of the textbook of the collection. Based on the works of Antunes (2007, 2012, 2014), Bagno (2013), Cunha and Cintra (2001) and Marcuschi (2010), we will assess issues such as how activities are contextualized, the importance given to grammar rules, or to the linguistic common uses and role of the text in proposals of activities concerning lexicon and language. It is concluded from the analysis that the use of the text as a starting point for the study of the language is well contemplated in the collection, however, some problems can be considered in what concerns to the approach of the linguistic varieties in the analyzed activities.