Pedagogy of language variation: to an heterogeneous approach of language to minimize the language prejudice

Abstract

The linguistic prejudice occurs in differents environments and its dissemination will result more and more in the repetition of the idea that the Brazilian does not know his own language, and he does not use it correctly. This prejudice may be also related to the approach of non standard and the standard norms together in the classroom. Thus, we justify this paper, for it is role of educational institutions to provide the teaching of the Portuguese language free of linguistic prejudice. This present work aims (i) to observe the positive attitudes and the negative one, regarding to the use of linguistic variations and (ii) to demonstrate the necessity of approach the linguistic variation in the educational institutions in order to minimize the incidence of linguistic prejudice among the speakers of the heterogeneous Portuguese language. This research has found that the study of linguistic variation is already actual in the school but it is not enough, considering that students are not always possible to really identify the varieties of fact. Therefore it is necessary a greater care to treat the linguistic peculiarities in order to avoid negative attitudes with this approach, and consequently minimize linguistic prejudice.