| dc.description.abstract | The present work investigates how the students from a school for deaf co-construct experiences of Portuguese language (PL) in the classroom context, and is inspired
by Richard Donato's work, published in 1994, that that aimed to identify the presence of the practice of scaffolding in the interactions between peers in lessons of
French as a second language. The research also intends to discover how the development of this L2 is brought to the social plan, starting from the hypothesis
that learners can, somehow, in some circumstances, provide the same kind of support and orientation to each others, like adults do with children, according to scaffolding concept researched by Wood, Bruner and Ross (1976). In order to do that, data were generated through participant observation of lessons and applications of didactic workshops especially elaborated for this purpose in a sixth grade Middle School group of a public special school for the deaf of the Porto Alegre metropolitan region. These lessons were videotaped, | en |
