Educação bilíngue no contexto escolar inclusivo: a construção de um glossário em Libras e Língua Portuguesa na área de matemática

Abstract

The present study performs a discussion about aspects related to inclusive and bilingual education in Brazil, specifically in Natal municipality. In this context, the main objective was to development a mathematics bilingual glossary (Libras and Portuguese language). Our research has focused on lexical and terminology theoretical studies, as well as official papers and research regarding special education. Firstly we observe difficulty of both, teachers and deaf students, during mathematics classes in different schools of Natal municipality, which are known as “Deafness reference bilingual complex”. Thus, we propose two educational products: a computational bilingual font, and the bilingual glossary. The bilingual font is a computational tool containing the alphabet (A to Z) and ordinal numbers (0 to 9) it was created via “Adobe Photoshop CS5” and “High-logic font creator 6 home edition” software. The mathematics bilingual glossary is composed by 147 terms extracted of six math books collections, covering from the first to fifth scholar year. We used four criteria to elaborate the glossary signs: replicate the sign existing in Capovilla and Raphael (2008) trilingual dictionary; using regional signs of the deaf community of “Rio Grande do Norte”; joining two or more signs from the Capovilla and Raphael (2008); using the bilingual font by fingerspelling (or dactylology) method. The results obtained with the present research shows the necessity of elaboration appropriated teaching materials in order to facilitate the use of Libras, promoting a good relationship between teaching and learning of the deaf students.