A importância do estudo de história da língua portuguesa no curso de Letras

Abstract

This work aims to highlight the Portuguese Language History discipline contents for the graduating student in the course of Classical Languages and Literature. The Portuguese Language teaching is done by didactic questions, in a cut out form, being each of its clips (Morphology, Phonetics, Syntax etc.) developed in different semesters. The fragmented form of studying the language seems to induce who is being graduated to a fragmented vision too (and fragmentary) of his study objective, jeopardizing the formation of the future language teacher/researcher. The linguistic phenomena analysis under the diachronic optics wherein a fonetical change can, for example, result in morphological and syntactic modifications enables the language vision in its functioning as a whole, with its parts interacting and interpenetrating. This wider vision, we believe, will capacitate the student to connect information of different clips, in order to achieve new and complex knowledge. We pursued to make evident the benefits of the diachronical approach by presenting the programmatic contents of the Portuguese Language History discipline, making comments which point out the relevance of each content for the formation of the graduating student. We added, many times, didactic activities suggestions with the intent of conquering the student s interest for the discipline in question