Libras: experiências vividas por acadêmicos ouvintes do curso de Educação Especial da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria - RS

Abstract

The discipline of LIBRAS is presented in the courses of higher education, essential in the training of teachers and educators. In this way, the objective of this work is to learn about the process of acquisition and learning of Libras by listeners in higher education, specifically in the Special Education Course, as foreseen in Decree 5626/2005, the Brazilian Language of Signals - LIBRAS should be part of the curriculum of undergraduate courses, especially those aimed at teacher training. In this sense, the objective of this work is to learn about the process of acquisition and learning of Libras by listeners, in undergraduate education. It is investigated the learning of the visual language manual by hearer students, as well as the perception of these students in relation to the learning of Libras, along the academic trajectory, verifying if the students have difficulties and what they would be. The methodology used for the accomplishment of this study is the descriptive research of qualitative approach, inserting itself in the modality of the Case Study. To perform data collection, it was used semi-structured interviews that were applied to five students of the seventh and eighth semesters. In the literature review, a bibliographical study about the formation of the hearer teacher was carried out first until the insertion of Libras in the course curriculum. From the studies of BRITO (1997, p. 7), it was provide to refer to Libras as a language that passes through the visual experience and also how it is learned as a second language - L2 - by hearer ones. From the analysis of the data, it is observed that the majority of the academics do not feel safe in relation to the learning / dominion of the LIBRAS. The scholars emphasize the need to increase the hours of the discipline of LIBRAS, pointing out as indispensable the greater number of practical classes and, mainly, greater proximity and direct contact with the deaf community. To conclude this study, it is of fundamental importance to affirm that it is in the immersion with the deaf and in contact with the deaf universe that the academics can learn and have fluency in the LIBRAS.