Teaching languages to deaf students in Brazil at the intersection of discourses

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This work aims to discuss multilingual issues involving teaching languages to the deaf in Brazilian schools. For this purpose, it proposes an analysis of a set of materials produced by the Brazilian Ministry of Education aimed at situating means through which to act, represent and identify the deaf, as well as practices of teaching Brazilian Sign Language and Portuguese to this social group, based on the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) framework. Investigating discursive practices on this issue is important, as it allows one to identify the changes in the maintenance/transformation of recognition issues regarding the deaf in the Brazilian context. This analysis illustrates a multiplicity of voices that work to establish controversy upon evoking different meanings and a power struggle regarding the preservation of rules that currently guide the processes of language teaching for the deaf in an inclusive perspective.Este trabalho objetiva discutir questões acerca do ensino de línguas para surdos nas escolas brasileiras e, para tanto, propõe analisar um material produzido pelo Ministério da Educação a fim de situar modos de agir, representar e identificar os surdos e as práticas de ensino da Língua de Sinais Brasileira e a Língua Portuguesa para esse grupo a partir do referencial da Análise do Discurso Crítica. Investigar práticas discursivas sobre essa questão é importante, pois possibilita identificar movimentos de manutenção/transformação das questões de reconhecimento dos surdos no contexto brasileiro. A análise aponta para uma multiplicidade de vozes que operam para o estabelecimento da polêmica ao evocar diferentes sentidos e uma luta pelo poder em relação à preservação das regras que atualmente orientam os processos de ensino de línguas para os surdo em uma perspectiva inclusiva.

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Piconi, L. B. (2014). Teaching languages to deaf students in Brazil at the intersection of discourses. Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada, 14(4), 881–904. https://doi.org/10.1590/s1984-63982014005000022

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