Casos de Concordância Verbal nos Textos dos Alunos da 10ª Classe da Escola n.º 1202 “25 de Abril”, no Município de Caluquembe

Abstract

his paper focuses on the study of cases of verb agreement in the texts of the 10th graders of "Escola 25 de Abril" in Caluquembe. The main objectives are: to contribute methodological proposals for improving the teaching-learning process of verb agreement; to identify cases of verb agreement in the students' texts; to propose methodological suggestions for reducing the students' difficulties. The objectives were achieved through the following research question: What aspects of verb agreement can we find in the texts of the 10th graders of the 1202 "Escuela 25 de Abril de Caluquembe"? We used a theory based on Dias (1970), Cunha (1985), Cunha and Cintra (2000), Bechara (2001) and Almeida (2009). The methodology used falls within the analytical-descriptive method. The data was collected from the students' essays in the final exam. After correcting these texts, we surveyed the concordance problems found in the respective compositions. Our aim was to detect the number of deviations in the use of verb agreement in order to contribute to methodological proposals for improving the teaching-learning process of the Portuguese language. We analyzed the cases of verb agreement in the productions of 10th graders at school No. 1202 "25 de Abril" in the municipality of Caluquembe and concluded that there are deviations in verb agreement. The data shows that 58.33% of the cases involve a lack of agreement between the verb and the direct complement in number, and 33.33% of the cases involve a lack of agreement between the verb and the direct complement in gender.