A produção acadêmica sobre português escrito para surdos: indicações para o ensino de preposição

Abstract

The preposition is a word class that represents a particular difficulty to deaf learners of Portuguese as a Second Language due to its supposed lack of this class in Brazilian Sign Language. It happens also because of the polysemic nature of prepositions. Based on the above, this Master Dissertation researches Brazilian scientific production repository on the teaching of written Portuguese as a second language to deaf students. The research began by investigating the main theoretical foundations of preposition studies and also the issues on deaf education. Then, it studies the class of preposition, especially in reference to the way in which this class of words is contemplated and in what way they are treated in these works which were accessed in the website platform of CAPES (Academic Coordination for Superior Level Staff Improvement) and scientific data published in Scientific Reviews, from 2005 up to 2017. In order to make this study, we opted for the State of the Art research, from a qualitative perspective, to analyze data on academic production in Dissertations, Theses and Scientific Journals. As result, besides the discussion on the main stream theories about the subject and its tendencies, it proposes some teaching suggestions for working out preposition in classes of Portuguese as a Second Language