Aprendendo a ouvir aqueles que não ouvem: o desafio do professor de Ciências no trabalho com a linguagem científica com alunos surdos

The education of Deaf students in Brazil is supported by legal documents, and the student's choice is to study in an inclusive context with the support of interpreters from Libras or in bilingual education spaces, with Libras being a language of instruction.When focusing on bilingual schools, many points should be taken into account in the student's learning process through Libras, such as: a good command of the language by the teacher, use of different resources such as tools in class, the exploration of visual aspects, among others.In science classes, in addition to the points mentioned, the teacher should be concerned with the meaning of the scientific concepts from Libras, and in some cases, sign language still does not contemplate this scientific vocabulary.From this framework, the present research was constituted with the focus of analyzing the interactions between teacher and Deaf students in the science classes of a bilingual education school, based on the teaching tools that the teacher used in his practice, in the vocabulary used and the students' final evaluation.This analysis was based on an ethnographic study based on the diaries, videos of the students' evaluations and also on an interview with the Science Teacher.With this, several aspects were identified that can contribute as much to the teaching of sciences for Deaf as to listeners as to the formation of the scientific concept in the classroom.Words and signs from the area of science carry with them a conceptual meaning which, in pounds, is often constructed in class, because the scientific vocabulary is still basic.This construction can enrich a class depending on the teaching methodology and how the teacher works in the classroom and in Libras, being able to work with the combination of signals or also with the use of classifiers, when identified that there is no specific signal.In the classes followed, it was observed that there were combinations of signals, but in the evaluations, many students...