Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: ALESSANDRA DE AZEVEDO COSTA

Analysis of the textual production written in Portuguese by deaf high school students at the Federal Institute of Bahia, Campus Salvador: the Interlingua phenomenon.

Portuguese Language for the Deaf; Interlingua; Bilingualism.

Brazilian Deaf subjects live in a very complex linguistic situation: they have Libras as their first language and, therefore, are obliged to learn written Portuguese Language (PL) in order to participate in social interactions with non-Libras users and to access the written cultural assets. However, the way in which these subjects have accessed the schools has been unsatisfactory in guaranteeing effective literacy in PL, given that they are inserted in the classroom along with hearing students and classes are taught for them using PL as a language of instruction, regardless of its language. Thus, this research seeks to analyze the writing of Deaf students in the 3rd year of High School at IFBA, Salvador campus, in order to identify the main difficulties, they have in the production of written texts, as well as to classify the interlanguage levels in which their writing is found. This research is classified as applied with a qualitative and interpretive, descriptive approach and, regarding technical procedures, it is characterized as a case study. The methodological procedures adopted involve a bibliographic survey on the subject, a survey of the corpus obtained from the essays to be produced by the Deaf students who were the research informants, analysis of the corpus in order to classify the level of interlanguage present in the students' essays; in addition to an interview carried out in order to discover its relationship with LP at home and at school in order to obtain information for the interpretation of the data that will be provided in the analysis of the essays. It is expected that the research points out that the teaching of LP for the Deaf, mediated by Libras, using educational practices of teaching L2, can provide deaf students with a deeper understanding of the functioning of the LP that helps them both in understanding and in the production more intelligible written texts.