Orality, teaching Portuguese language and teacher training

ABSTRACT This study proposes to discuss the status of orality as a curricular component of the subject Portuguese language in the Brazilian school. Therefore, it presents, initially, an overview of the ways in which orality is approached in the historical course of the constitution of Portuguese language teaching, in what it refers to the curricula and teaching programs and the didactic materials proposed. Next, this historically constructed status of orality is contrasted with current Portuguese language teaching practices mediated by students for licentiate in Letters, on the occasion of an internship in schools of the public system of the city of São Paulo (Brazil). The description and analysis of the process of implementation of a teaching project about oral debate as a textual genre by a student, as recorded in your internship report, allow us to problematize some of the challenges that the orality approach poses to teaching practices and to the training of the Portuguese language teacher.