SUCCESSFUL CASES AND STRATEGIES IN PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE TEACHING FOR THE DEAF
portuguese language, second language, deaf people, methodological strategies
The present research project proposes to investigate successful methodological strategies regarding the teaching-learning process of portuguese for the deaf, in the written modality. In regular classrooms, the teaching process is based, almost exclusively, on sound stimuli. Teachers tend to use the lecture as the main resource and, consequently, oral communication is more used and, in many cases, to the detriment of visual language. According to Quadros (1997) most brazilian deaf adults demonstrate the failure of countless attempts to guarantee language through the oral-auditory language of the country, portuguese. Most professionals involved in the education of deaf people who know and live with deaf adults admit the failure of teaching portuguese, not only as a language used for written expression, but mainly as a language that allows language development. However, many deaf people are not part of this statistic, since they managed to learn the Portuguese language and master reading and writing skills satisfactorily. Therefore, this research aims to systematize the factors and strategies that were adopted in the cases of deaf people who were successful in the teaching-learning process of Portuguese as a second language and then to think about the possibilities of sharing such methodological strategies to enable more and more deaf people to acquire satisfactory reading and writing skills, taking into account the specificities of portuguese as a second language