Investigando a instrução explícita de pronúncia em livro didático de português como língua estrangeira publicado na Alemanha

Abstract

Believing in the need of researches dedicated to the teaching of Portuguese beyond the territorial boundaries of this country, this work reports the results found on a research made with students of brasilian portuguese (PB) of a high school level institution in the city of Mettingen, Germany, to verify which were the biggest difficulties that related to the learning process of PB. For that intent, the adaptation of a questionnaire was made from another material which has been used in the courses of PFOL of the UTFPR, and was sent to 15 students. From the 12 received responses, difficulties with pronunciation were reported by 58% of the informants, fact that led us to analyse the student‟s book used by the school to teach PB (Oi, Brasil!) to verify the ways in which the pronunciation was approached. Literature was researched relative to the constitution of classroom material and, more specifically, related to the teaching of pronunciation, focusing in the segmental aspects prior to the analysis. The analysis evidenced the existence of few exercises that focused on the explicit pronunciation instruction, fact that indicated the need of a more active presence of the teacher in this matter.