Exercícios didáticos e itens avaliativos: o estudo do vocabulário para o desenvolvimento lexical nas práticas de língua portuguesa

Abstract

The present work studied the vocabulary of the didactic exercises in the book adopted for Elementary School at Escola Estadual Professora Cristina Guimarães, entitled Se liga na lingual: reading, text production and language: a teacher's manual, provided by the National Textbook Program, and of the evaluative items in the Tutored Study Plan, elaborated by the Secretary of State for Education of Minas Gerais during the period of remote classes.. The participants involved in this research are the 6th grade students of this school. The main theories that guide the development of the work are specialized genres and specialized vocabulary, and the notes of lexical studies, such as Lexicology, Lexicography and Lexical Semantics. The research hypotheses suggest that the difficulties presented by the students to understand the didactic exercises and the evaluative items are based, in several cases, on the lack of knowledge of the vocabulary used to develop the activities. From this, it is speculated that the work focused on lexical-semantic relations with the lexias pointed out as the target of misunderstanding of the exercises and items may contribute to the expansion of the students' vocabulary repertoire. The methodology used was of an applied, practical, qualitative and interpretive nature. Thus, we observed which doubts about the lexicon arose at the moment of application of the activities and, from the results, the Proposal of Teaching Practices was elaborated with the objective of expanding the vocabulary and making students capable of answering with autonomy the school exercises and tests regarding lexical appropriation. The Proposal was also applied to the School teachers and to undergraduate students in Letras Português at Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros, as we believe that teachers, whether in training or working, should reflect and seek to know about the vocabulary that integrates the exercises and items applied to students. Moreover, the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel aims to integrate graduation, undergraduation and public Elementary and High Schools. This research also intended to expand the scope of studies related to the theme with the intention of contributing to the development of similar proposals and to linguistic studies involving the lexicon, school activities and teaching materials.