GRAMMATICAL KNOWLEDGES AT SCHOOL: BETWEEN THE MAINTENANCE OF NORMATIVISM AND THE CONCEPTUAL LOOSENING

Abstract This article discusses the instruction of graduates in Portuguese Language, regarding to teaching grammatical knowledges at school. The research question that moves the article is: How do graduates of the Course of Portuguese Language understand/operate with the teaching and learning of grammatical knowledge in the subject of Portuguese Language in Basic Education?. The approach is qualitative, following a theoretical framework with a historical-cultural basis. The results show that students of the Portuguese Language Faculty in focus, despite a consistent formalist education in terms of grammar, when immersed in the school sphere, seem to conceive grammar without specifying it, therefore isomorphic to normativism, so that a solid formal education, which is prioritized in the Portuguese Language Faculty in focus, does not seem to effectively influence the way graduates operate with the concept of grammar. Emerges then, on the one hand, the surrendering to normativism still present in the school sphere or, on the other hand, the loosening of lexical-grammatical approach.