Educação bilíngue: um caminho para alfabetização de pessoas surdas

Abstract

In order to discuss the methodologies applied in the literation of deaf people, this study presents bibliographic research developed by analysing academic thesis published in public universities from northeastern Brazil, from 2015 to 2018. Therefore, we performed a survey in these institutions' digital platforms, identifying the methodologies already in use. Considering the scarce findings, we selected only one thesis: the one that came closest to our aforementioned study object. After that, we resorted to legal texts about the topic, such as the "Libras act" (act nº 10.436/02), Decree nº 5.626/05, Brazilian Inclusion Act (act nº 13.146/15) and the National Education Plan (PNE 2014-2024). Furthermore, studies by Lacerda (1998, 2010, 2016) and Soares (1985, 2003) were mostly used. So, we could notice, according to the scope of the study, that there is, in the surveyed region, schools and teachers who care about using specific methodologies to literate students in the written portuguese language. However, this methods follow different ways of those proposed for deaf people bilingual education in this country, whose determination is that such curriculum contents must be thaught in sign language as the first language (L1), being the written portuguese language the second one (L2), which is considered more suitable to the specific necessities of the deaf person as a visual being. Thus, we verify that the methodologies presented by the studied thesis appoint which more efective actions are necessary so schools can, indeed, contribute to the literation of deaf students.