A aquisição do verbo na interlíngua escrita de timorenses universitários aprendizes de português L2

Abstract

All those who worked and still work with teaching and learning of Portuguese language in East Timor have certainly faced a number of particularities and specificities that make their work practice unique in the universe of teaching practices. My brief experience as a L2 Portuguesespeaking teacher in this country has motivated me to produce a research that systematically focused on the characteristics of the Timorese L2 (second language) Portuguese learner's interlanguage and that could in some way contribute to the development of this theoreticalpractical area. The environmental and circumstantial conditions led us to the possible cut, establishing as main objective the investigation of characteristics of usage of verbs in Portuguese language interlanguage of young Timorese over time, considered three distinct moments of production. To execute this research, we adopted the theoretical framework based on Psycholinguistics, more specifically in the field of Second Language Acquisition (ELLIS, 1997), with Interlanguage concept (SELINKER, 1972), and we used Error Analysis (CORDER, 1967; SANTOS GARGALLO, 2004) as a methodological basis. This type of analysis allowed the disclosure of several characteristic traits of the Interlanguage, which, in large part, evidenced the agreement between subject, verb, and usage of tenses and verb modes as of great difficulty for the participants, representing a challenge for the acquisition of the Portuguese language as L2.