Ensinar gramática Percursos que se criam, caminhos que se trilham

Abstract

This article has as framework the inductive approach to grammar teaching, in which the students are expected to discover and to recognize grammar rules through data observation, detection of regularities and generalization. It is based on Ana Maria Brito’s works in which grammar learning is viewed as “discovery learning”. In the first part, the author’s body of work on this subject is revisited, in order to create an unified suggestion of grammar teaching. In a second part, a teaching sequence plan is presented: based on grammar teaching as reflective activity, it shows a consistent and articulated development of learner’s syntactic knowledge from early ages, namely from the 1st cycle of basic education