O bilinguismo bimodal em duas crianças kodas: uma análise da libras em ambiente familiar e do português brasileiro em ambiente escolar

The process of language acquisition is stablished, in its natural course, through the mother tongue. In cases of deaf parents, whose children are hearing, the mother tongue, established for communication in the domestic scenario, is Brazilian Sign Language, although the children naturally develop, in their social interaction, their second native language in the oral modality, in case of the CODAs of this research, Brazilian Portuguese. Through these two stages of acquisition, relationships are established, mainly in the domestic and educational environments, places where, respectively, the afore mentioned languages are acquired and developed during interactions with their deaf parents and relatives, as well as with their classmates and teachers in the educational institution they attend. Upon that, this research aims to investigate two hearing children with the ages between 6 and 7 years old, of the male gender, whose parents are deaf, considering their linguistic behaviour in domestic and educational environments, due to the bimodality of their bilingualism, Libras and Brazilian Portuguese. Thus, we ́ll analyse the teaching process in the educational and domestic environments of these children, to identify the possible existence of linguistic phenomena such as code-blending (where one language overlays the other), code-switching (where an alternation between languages occurs) and code-mixing (where the two languages mix), as well as to perceive the construction of the linguistic behaviour of these children, taking into account their bilingualism. To form our theoretical foundation, we take authors such as Quadros et.al, (2013, 2014), Spinassé (2006) and Megale (2005), which served as our basis to try and comprehend how the languages involved in this bimodal bilingualism behave in a domestic scenery, where the language of communication and instruction between parents and CODAs is Libras and, simultaneously, to also investigate the communication, in the educational...