Linguistic Variation and Social Representation in Portuguese Language Classes in High School

Abstract

In this article, we present partial results of research on ways of building the teaching of linguistic variation content and its relationship with social representation. The issue on focus is to know which activities and teaching resources were used by teacher and students in Portuguese language classes. The execution of the research was in a sophomore year of high school of a public school in the State of Paraíba, in the first semester of 2019. The corpus was constituted through notes, an audio recording of classes and interviews with teacher and students. The analysis, based on studies of culture, social representation, linguistic and didactic variation, showed as main results, that the study of linguistic variation, provided by the teacher’s methodology, is done through a diversity of activities production that benefits more assimilation of the content from a linguistic point of view than from the implications of its use for exploring the socio-cultural components of the phenomenon.

Keywords

• linguistic variation
• language teaching
• social representation