O software HagáQuê: uma proposta para a prática da língua portuguesa escrita da pessoa com surdez

Abstract

This research aims to investigate the contributions of the use of the software HagáQuê to practice Portuguese Language written by deaf people with different levels of education, specifically elementary school students and higher education. The research has a qualitative approach because the analysis of the construction of the Portuguese Language written of the person with hearing loss was better in relation to the writing. The study is characterized as a collective case study, whereas field research was conducted in a public school in the Municipal Center and a service to people with hearing loss. To collect data it was used the strategy of participant observation, accompanied by shooting and notes in the logbook. The results showed the need to analyze the test process and the written production of the person with hearing loss through the use of educational technology. It was found that introducing students to activities with shapes and features motivating and engaging that integrate the work with a wealth of visual elements, aroused the interest of participation in construction activities of the written production. The participation of an adult fluent in Portuguese Language written during the meetings was crucial to the written production work by the person with hearing loss. Likewise, the performance of interpreters proficient in Brazilian sign language allowed the exchange of information between researchers and visited, and thus favored from the simple clarification of doubts the awareness of students on the use of the Portuguese Language written in different social practices. The difficulties of elementary school students to be proficient in sign language, and the difficulties of students in higher education in appropriating the Portuguese Language written, represents the main limiting factors for the process of building this research. As HagáQuê a predominantly visual appeal, it is apparent satisfaction and commitment of these subjects in carrying out work involving written language in a more enjoyable and playful. However, it is possible to say that the software HagáQuê is a promising resource for the practice of Portuguese Language written of the person with hearing loss and points to the need for professionals involved in such an approach valuing the use of creative strategies and challenging, to consider multiplicity of contexts and thus may promote the construction of a significantly knowledge.