In this research we investigate how Elementary School Portuguese teachers are dealing with the crash between traditional grammar teaching and the new proposals of language teaching that aim to outdo this traditional approach by developing what the National Curriculum Parameters for Portuguese Language calls Axis of Reflection and Analysis on Language. From a theoretical standpoint, we support the assumptions of Applied Linguistics and the methodological point of view in of the qualitative approach. Our results indicate the coexistence of different theoretical and methodological perspectives in the practice of teachers in this axis, and these perspectives are more clearly delineated on the basis of linguistic contents selected and taught in the classroom.
Teaching language; Linguistics Analysis; Traditional Grammar