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 and teaching Libras Portuguese to the deaf at a high school in Itapecuru-Mirim/MA. The study aimed to analyze the methodologies and strategies used by the interpreter to facilitate teaching these students. Teaching aims to develop the student's varied capabilities, including cognitive, ethical, affective, aesthetic and physical. Therefore, the school environment needs to be prepared to reflect on the teaching-learning process, so that the student develops satisfactorily, and the interpreter seeks teaching methods and methodologies that facilitate the student's access to the content taught, and thus, assuming teaching strategies, as it is essential to have qualified teachers who are committed to teaching students with Deafness. As methodological support, methods of a basic qualitative nature were used, classified as descriptive, included in the field of qualitative approaches to scientific investigation, containing the research technique of Extensive Direct Observation and discursive analytical procedures for the development of the research. The results were based on the answers to the interview given to the interpreter who works at the school and a deaf student. The results indicate that the teacher who works as an interpreter at that school has sought to promote teaching strategies for deaf students, however, the reality about inclusion in the visited environment still needs to be implemented in a more assertive way, considering that the school does not provides support and guidance for the education of deaf students.