Variation studies in Brazil have focused mostly on the phonological and syntactic linguistic levels. The various projects which are based on data collected in different communities (VARSUL, PEUL, IBORUNA, VALPB etc.) seek to address their findings by using all the theoretical apparatus that Variation Sociolinguistics has made available. Based on the results of the implementation of Projeto Variação Linguística no Estado da Paraíba (Linguistic Variation in the State of Paraiba Project) - VALPB (HORA, 1993), which corpus is stratified by gender, age and education level, and attempting to cast an eye on a new corpus, this paper considers the linguistic variation in oral reading done by students of the first phase of elementary school. The analyzed data indicate a strong influence of the dialectal variant of the student in oral reading. Of the various processes involved in the original project, three were selected, namely: monophthongization, diphthongization and the deletion of 'd' in the group -ndo. This relation between what the student speaks and what he/she reads motivates the search for analysis proposals that go beyond what the school recommends.
Sociolinguistics; Variation; Reading and teaching
