Libras: um estudo de caso sobre o papel do intérprete e o ensino de língua portuguesa para surdos em uma escola do ensino médio em Itapecuru-Mirim/MA

Abstract

This research encompasses reflections on a case study about the role of the interpreter in teaching Libras (Brazilian Sign Language) and Portuguese to deaf students in a high school in Itapecuru-Mirim/MA. The study aimed to analyze the methodologies and strategies used by the interpreter to facilitate the teaching of these students. Teaching aims at developing the student's various capacities, including cognitive, ethical, affective, aesthetic, and physical abilities. Therefore, the school environment needs to be prepared to reflect on the teaching-learning process so that the student develops satisfactorily, and the interpreter must seek teaching methods and approaches that facilitate the student's access to the content being taught, thus adopting teaching strategies. It is fundamental to have qualified and committed teachers dedicated to the education of deaf students. As methodological support, basic qualitative methods were used, classified as descriptive, and included in the field of qualitative approaches to scientific research, containing the research technique of Extensive Direct Observation and discursive analytical procedures for the development of the research. The results were based on the responses to the interview applied to the interpreter who works at the school and a deaf student. The results indicate that the teacher who works as an interpreter at the school has sought to promote teaching strategies for deaf students; however, the reality of inclusion in the visited environment still needs to be implemented more assertively, considering that the school does not provide support and guidance for the education of deaf students.