This paper discusses the widely spread idea that Portuguese grammar teaching from decades ago, in Brazil, was a continuous and homogenous panorama. In order to understand this past, this paper reports an analysis of interviews with some Portuguese language teachers who worked in São Paulo public schools in the 1950s to 1970s with the aim of investigating how their discourses on grammar teaching were formed in the process of rememoration. This study observed that the permanence of a tradition and the rise of a new attitude coexisted in the same period of time, opening space for distinct attitudes in grammar teaching.
Portuguese language; teaching; grammar