Língua portuguesa: conceituação e usos do tempo pretérito.

Abstract

For many years, the use of preterite tense in the teaching of verbs in Portuguese language classes has been oriented in a scarce and traditional way. Sometimes this can obstruct their meanings during the locutionary act, preventing the student from understanding the different forms used in the standard variant . This reaserch has as objective the awareness of the teachers of basic education by developing their methodologies and practices in the verbal grammar teaching, analyzing the contributions of verbal tenses, emphasizing the importance of the use of preterite tense for the process of teaching Portuguese language, and pointing out the relevance of the use of each of them.The conceptions used cover topics such as Language, Grammar and Preterite Tense: conceptions and values. The method used for this research is deductive, since it essentially considers previous experiences based on bibliographic analyzes, indicating the relations of the practices between the teaching and use of grammatical methodologies in the training of the student, reader and native language teachers. This reasearch is important for the academic learning and methodological development of future Portuguese language teachers in relation to the teaching-learning process of grammar studies. It also contributes greatly to the significant process constituted in the structure of the mother language.