Usos do aspecto verbal, em Português do Brasil, por falantes nativos de árabe: indicações para o ensino de Português como Segunda Língua

Abstract

This Master's Thesis is part of the area of Teaching Portuguese as a Non-Mother Tongue, focusing on the teaching of Brazilian Portuguese to foreigners. It takes as its object of study, specifically, the construction of the notion of verbal aspectuality and its uses by foreigners, speakers of Arabic, Considering the challenges experienced by these learners due to the influence of their mother tongue. It aims to describe the notions of aspectuality in Arabic and Brazilian Portuguese; compare the differences between the notion of aspectuality in Arabic and Brazilian Portuguese; identify the difficulties and analyze the uses of aspectuality by Portuguese learners, Arabic speakers; systematize the needs of the target audience in relation to learning verbal aspect in Portuguese. As part of the methodological procedures, it uses transcriptions of reports published in videos, collected online from the Youtube video sharing platform. Regarding the theoretical bases that support the present research, it uses studies not exclusively dedicated to Portuguese Non-Mother Tongue (PLNM) studies, which deal with aspectuality in a more general way. From this, it thinks about what are the differences, in terms of proximities and distances, between the notions of aspectuality in the Portuguese and Arabic languages; if there are significant distances, what information resulting from this is relevant for teachers to propose appropriate strategies for teaching aspectuality to Arabic speakers; what indications, in didactic-methodological terms, can be offered to the area of Teaching Portuguese as a Second Language in order to contribute to the improvement of the proficiency of Arabic speakers in Brazilian Portuguese