As produções escritas dos acadêmicos surdos ingressantes no letras-libras da UFAL: análise a partir dos níveis de interlíngua

Abstract

This work aims to identify, characterize and analyze at which level of interlanguage Deaf students enter Higher Education, concerning the skills and competences of reading and writing Portuguese. Deaf people are immersed in a territory that speaks this language, given that they tend to communicate in sign language (LIBRAS) as the first language (L1) and their second language (L2) is Portuguese in the written form, this way, they experience a bilingual context. Thus, the analyzes of the (Analyzing) interlanguage stages aim to point out singular aspects of this writing. So, the theoretical framework used was based mainly on the following authors: Silva and Figueiredo (2006), Ortiz Alvarez (2002) and Fernandes (2007) When dealing with notions of errors, while, on interlanguage, the authors Rinaldi (2018), Schütz (2018), Brochado (2003), Bentes (2007), Quadros (1997), Santos (2011) and Silva (2001), who discuss these issues. In the methodology, a case study was made (GIL, 2007, 2008), analyzing the three stages of interlanguage in the production of written Portuguese for the Deaf people, proposed by Brochado (2003), as categories of analysis in the data interpretation, in line with this study with the guidelines of qualitative-descriptive research. Besides, semi-structured interviews and document analysis of texts collected from students, subjects of our research, from the Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL) were used for data collection. The research revealed the stages that each participating subject is in,which contributes to future reflections, in addition to demystifying the idea of the linguistic uniqueness of these subjects.