Language variaton in portuguese foreign language teaching materials (PLE)

Abstract

In this article, we analyse activities related to variation in the coding of the temporal system (tense/ aspect/ mode) in two workbooks of the Bem-Vindo collection (Calles et al; Burim and Medrado, 2013). 23 questions about tense/aspect/mode we reapplied of the workbook for students of Latin origin, and only 04 considerations on the variation; in the workbook aimed at students of Anglo-Saxon origin, there are 07 activities suitable for dealing with variations of the 39 observed. From the workbook intended for students of Latin origin, only one question is strictly related to the variation in classical perspective (in the sense of the same referential meaning): variation between imperative versus infinitive in acts of command. Concerning the other three, although equal temporal values are in the scene, there are aspectual and/or modal divergences. In the workbook for students of Anglo-Saxon origin, there are questions about simple versus composite form of the more-than-perfect past tense; perfect and imperfect; present tense and future of the past; perfect past composite and present tense; imperative forms depending on the pronouns (tu x você); to be auxiliaries and past participle. These variations treatment pointed out can encourage the development of other teaching materials, which would imply agreement with what the linguistic literature has shown in descriptions of phenomena in variation.