Complemento nominal e adjunto adnominal em livros didáticos aprovados pelo Plano Nacional do Livro Didático de 2018 e 2021.

Abstract

This paper aims to find out how the noun complement and noun adjunct are taught, verify how these functions are seen by the grammatical tradition and how they are presented in Brazilian public education, considering as a reference some textbooks approved by the Brazilian National Textbook Program - PNLD. The differentiation of these two terms makes the path tortuous for students and teachers. One of the results mention this path, showing the teaching of these two terms only from examples of loose and decontextualized sentences, using works from the literary canon that have no correlation with the language in use. This conclusion was reached when analyzing normative grammars. Another alarming fact found in the analysis was works that did not mention the phenomenon, preventing students from acquiring any knowledge. It was found, however, that there are already works that deal with the phenomenon in a contemporary way, i.e., contextualized in the way language is used on a daily basis. We also identified works that presented both forms of teaching, canonical and contemporary, which proved to be of great value for teaching CN and ADJ. ADN. However, there is still a need for a review of the teaching of these components, either in the separation into two distinct groups whose characteristics are similar and can be mixed up, or in the different ways of teaching in textbooks, sometimes canonical, sometimes contemporary and often distinct, causing confusion when learning.