Teaching Linguistics at School: a confrontation with reality

Abstract

This article presents the linguistics as teaching subject in the school. The idea is to contrast, through a critical dialogue, the contemporary grammatical approach with the grammar taught at schools. The purpose of this work is to reflect on the insertion of linguistics in the school context, considering the reality faced by grammar teachers and students. In addition to showing that linguistics can change the relations teacher-student and the teaching-learning relationships inside the school. We do not intend to relate the teaching of linguistics to the art of writing well. The proposal presented favors the entrance of linguistics into the school as a scientific and descriptive study of grammatical phenomena of Brazilian Portuguese. This work is based on Perini (2006, 2010, 2016) and on the recent study by Pires de Oliveira and Quarezemin (2016).