A dicionarização de termos em língua brasileira de sinais (Libras) para o ensino de biologia: uma atitude empreendedora

Abstract

In the process of teaching and learning of deaf students, especially in biology teaching, many sign language translators-interpreters and school teachers find difficulties to convey specific ideas and concepts, which create misunderstanding and loss of information transfer agility (SOUZA; SILVEIRA, 2011). This is due to lack of specific signals from different areas of knowledge in sign language. Therefore, some deaf students from a school in the northern region of Paraná, motivated by an entrepreneurial spirit and aided by biology teachers and sign language interpreters, endeavored to dictionarize the main terms of biology present in teaching high school books. This work presents the evaluation and application of a support tool (sign language glossary) in teaching high school biology to deaf students. The specific objectives of the research were to identify the difficulties in teaching biology to deaf students, determine the lack of signs in biology education for the deaf high school students, proposing to the community of deaf students and high school biology teachers a set of signs that could contribute to the process of teaching and learning, assessing the adequacy of signs proposed to the classroom everyday and submit to the high school community a sign language glossary for the biology area. The theoretical basis of this research consisted in the history of deaf education in the linguistic structure of sign language and restrictions on the formation of new signs, the needs of specific scientific terms for teaching and learning of deaf students and the entrepreneurship and its relationship in the educational environment. For data collection, it was used open and closed questionnaires with biology school teachers and deaf high school students from a state school in northern Paraná. The results obtained through a qualitative and quantitative research demonstrated the real need for an educational product that favors the learning of scientific / biological terms in sign language.