Neologismos: uma proposta de ensino para o desenvolvimento da competência lexical.

Abstract

Relying on several reference authors on the subject, this paper discusses what the lexicon is, the importance of its teaching in the classroom, what is lexical competence and how it should be developed in the student, in addition to proposing the development of a didactic sequence that contemplates the main aspects considered essential for the teaching of the lexicon. Within the proposal presented, it is believed that working with neologisms contributes quite significantly to developing lexical competence in the student, because the same skills required to properly understand and employ a new lexical unit also serve any word in the language. Because they are neologisms, so recurrent in advertising texts, we opted for this genre for the elaboration of activities. The purpose of this work is to contribute to the development of students‟ lexical competence, in order to solve some of the difficulties they have when reading and producing texts, oral and written, due to unpreparedness with regard to knowledge and the correct use of certain lexical items. Through the development of a didactic sequence that adopts methodologies aimed at the skill and mastery of the lexicon by the learner, it is expected that Portuguese language teachers can have a direction for their work in the classroom when addressing topics related to vocabulary teaching.