The place of orality in the classroom

Abstract

This article examines the place of orality practice in Portuguese Language classes based on teaching proposals implemented during the Supervised Internship in the Portuguese Language course at the Federal University of Santa Catarina. As a theoretical conception, it is assumed that the reality of language occurs in social interaction and materializes in concrete utterances, with language teaching centered on the practices of usage: oral communication, writing, reading, and linguistic analysis. Regarding the methodology, a documentary analysis of 105 teaching proposals was conducted, along with bibliographic research on guiding and normative documents in Portuguese Language education. The documentary analysis revealed that, in most proposals, oral activities were more frequent than activities involving other language usage practices. However, they were less structured, since speaking and listening served as instruments for a work that favored another practice.