Os verbos nas questões do ENADE: um assunto com múltiplas faces

Abstract

The object of this dissertation is to describe and interpret questions related to verbs in the National Student Performance Exam (ENADE) in the tests assigned to undergraduate students of Language Studies faculties. The corpus used in our re-search is composed of all the test questions since 1998 when this exam was known as “Provão”. The corpus encompasses any aspects related to verbs, a major word class used as a sentence axis. The morphosyntactic, semantic-stylistic, and pragmatic-discursive aspects of the verbs are considered in this study, as well as the texts used in the exams, which represent journalistic, literary, academic, and advertising text genres to illustrate its theoretical basis, providing explanations and comments on the issues. The theoretical basis of this paper departs from traditional grammar books and the most recent linguistic theories in the area, using the six volumes of the collection “Português na Prática”, by Claudio Cezar Henriques, as documental support. The ENADE questions can be found in the appendix of every issue of this collection, organized according to the six categories: Phonetics, Phonology and Spelling; Morphology; Syntax; Geohistory; Lexicon and Semantics; and Stylistics and Discourse