Coco de roda da Paraíba na educação básica: a poesia oral nas aulas de língua portuguesa

Abstract

This master's thesis presents the results of a qualitative and exploratory research about Portuguese Language Teaching with the use of texts from the oral tradition, specifically the popular poetry of cocos de roda. The central question of the study was the following: How is it possible to promote school literacy in the final grades of Elementary School in which the texts of oral tradition songs are present and collaborate with the linguistic and sociocultural development of the students? From the perspective of multiliteracies, this dissertation seeks to undertake a proposal to value the oral tradition in the teaching of Portuguese Language and reflect on the possibilities of expanding language practices at school aimed at the development of language skills and competences from the potential of the oral poetry of these musical texts of popular culture. The theoretical contribution of the study is based on official documents of Brazilian education, such as PCN (BRASIL, 1997; 1998), BNCC (BRASIL, 2018); in addition to the theoretical contributions of Rodrigues (2011; 2017a; 2017b; 2018), Ferrarezi Júnior (2010), Soares (2017), Kleiman (2001), Street (2014), Freire (2006), Marcuschi (2001), Geraldi (1997), Zumthor (1993), Rojo (2012), Bakhtin (2010), among others. For the development of the applied research phase, a pedagogical product was developed (Student Module) that supported the activities of the Research Didactic Project. The choice of the research corpus was made in view of the importance of Coco de Roda da Paraíba for social interactions and for the transmission of collective memory (historical and cultural) and the recognition of values intrinsic to its production context. The songs of oral tradition bring in their language the symbolic representations present in the collective memory of a people. As texts constituted in social and cultural practices, these songs cross generations, permeating the knowledge and actions of subjects in their communities. Coco de Roda is an Intangible Cultural Heritage of oral tradition in Paraíba. Faced with such relevance, and the use of this memory object (linguistic monument) of cultures of oral tradition (RODRIGUES, 2018) in the Basic Education classroom, the pedagogical experience of the project showed that, giving voice to oral tradition in the school curriculum it allows the promotion of literacies that are open to consider the social and cultural practices of verbal interaction through language (RODRIGUES, 2017a). The success of this research applied to the teaching of languages can also be demonstrated by the use of multimodal texts and multimedia tools in the activities developed in the classroom through the promotion of multiliteracies in the Portuguese language classroom, which culminated in the collective composition of cocos de roda organized in a “Notebook of authorial coconuts” and the creation of a Podcast entitled “O Coco Paraibano na Educação Básica” with the active participation of the students.