Variação e livro didático: pelos caminhos da sociolinguística educacional

Abstract

Based on Educational Sociolinguistics, or the purpose of asserting facing educational problems and presenting concrete pedagogical proposals, I present in this work a reflection on the performance of didactic materials in the promotion of an awareness of the variability of the language. The question to be answered is the role of the textbook in promoting a less stereotyped view of variation and acceptance of our linguistic identity, thinking about the urgency of a pedagogy focused on linguistic variation, starting from analyzes carried out on collections of books used in schools in Paraná and in Alagoas. The work focuses on the analysis of activities with the theme of linguistic variation inserted in textbooks in three approaches: i) materials still in the process of elaboration; collection books used in 2011; and (iii) collection books available to schools in 2017. For that, I am based on researchers who turn to this theme, such as Bortoni-Ricardo (2014), Zilles and Faraco (2015), Almeida-Baronas and Cobucci (2016), among others, and have developed an important discussion about the need for a less stereotyped approach to variation, and that favors the understanding of language as a social construct, updated in the interactions and, with it, varied, heterogeneous and rich.Keywords: Textbooks; Variation Pedagogy; Educational Sociolinguistics.