LINGUISTIC EVALUATION, ATTITUDES, BELIEFS AND PORTUGUESE TEACHING: A REFLECTION BASED ON TESTS WITH HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS

Abstract

Evaluation, attitudes and linguistic beliefs led to subjective judgments of the speaker about his own language and that of his interlocutor. Such judgments can influence linguistic variation or the course of linguistic change, and are usually anchored in the ideology of a standard language. In the school environment, the teacher stands out as one of the main agents of what is transmitted and/or reinforced in the teaching-learning process. Due to its role in the process of building beliefs and attitudes, we proposed in this study to investigate the linguistic attitudes of teachers from two public schools in Monte Azul Paulista-SP, regarding the variable phenomenon of verbal agreement. The main objective is to discuss about the valorization or rejection to the linguistic varieties in use and about the teaching of Portuguese in Brazil. This work was based on the theoretical and methodological approach of Variationist Sociolinguistics. (WEINREICH; LABOV; HERZOG, 2006; LABOV,2008).