Bilingüismo e letramento : análise da interação entre duas línguas.

Abstract

This research aims at analyzing the influence of a German dialect sponken in the area of Vera Cruz (countryside of RS) under the process of literacy in Brazilian Portuguese. The study investigated the process of knowledge tranference in the phonetic-phonologic, lexical, syntatic, semantic and pragmatic areas among the uses of a subject who starts to develop his oral competences in Brazilian Portuguese at school, with other classmates who are also bilingual (German dialect of the region/ Brazilian Portuguese) and other classmates that can only speak Portuguese. The research analyzed whether the process of generalization observed is related to the knowledge of L1 interfering on the learning of L2, or if it is an inappropriate reinforcement of L2, observing the occurrence, in some moments, of an inappropriate reinforcement of L2 and also tranferences of L1; and if the environment of teaching-learning (teacher, methodology of teaching, spoken language at informal contexts and classmates) helps at exceeding or reinforce the process of transference and generalization. For having trustworthy results, it was necessary to have a representative corpus, so there was selected a class of 1st year Elementary School, at a public school, with fifteen students, in the countryside of Vera Cruz. The researcher watched the class during the year of 2007 promoting many interactive situations (clips, musics, theater, computer games, rhymes) enphasysing orality. The data collection made through film recording and note writing. There happened fifteen meetings focused on the process of textualization of the participants. The hypothesis of the study were confirmed because it was proven there are transference of L1 to L2 em phoneticphonologic, syntatic and even lexical terms. On the other hand, it was also observed the interinfluence of one code on the other, due to the direct and constant contact between native speaker and dialect speakers. The exchange of the monolingual student who speaks German dialect with other dialect speakers, as well as the adaptation to a new place like school, presented the expected results. There were confirmed the hypothesis that the hard linguistic nucleus is the phonological, also being observed the tendence to an interpentration of L1 and L2 in the pragmatic level, as refered by Arabski (2007). That means that the additional contactation is related to the alternance of L1 under the influence of L2. As it is observed this modification starts to expand from the pragmatic level and goes modifying the local dialect, making the the language different from the German spoken in Germany (Hochdeutsch).