THE PROFILE OF THE STUDENTS AND THE REALITY OF PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE TEACHING IN GUINEA-BISSAU

ABSTRACT The objective of this study is to investigate the linguistic profile of Guinean students and some characteristics of the didactic material used to teach Portuguese in Guiné-Bissau, in order to establish a comparison between the needs of learners and what is offered for learning of Portuguese. As a theoretical subsidy for discussion we consider, among others, Almeida Filho (2005), Spinassé (2006), Carvalho (2011), Mendes (2011), Alves (2012), Sellan (2012) and Schoffen (2012). The corpus used in the research is a questionnaire applied to 50 Guinean students of higher education at the University of International Integration of Afro-Brazilian Lusophony and Portuguese-language didactic material used in the initial series in Guinea-Bissau. The results point to different factors that influence learning, such as inadequacy of the material, age of acquisition of the Portuguese language and teaching procedures.