Linguistic knowledge of graduates of the Literature course at the State University of Maranhão: a study with students from the Itapecuru Mirim Campus

Abstract

Linguistic knowledge is very important for contemporary society, such knowledge enables individuals to develop skills such as reading, writing and speaking in their daily social practices. In textual linguistics, the text is understood as a unit of meaning that becomes evident in several ways, and one of these is the understanding that the reader must have of the text's meanings. In entrance exams and other assessments, this category is widely explored, therefore, individuals' prior experiences and knowledge become extremely relevant. That said, in this work we sought to identify the linguistic skills of students completing the Literature course at the State University of Maranhão - Itapecuru Mirim Campus, using as techniques bibliographical research and participant observation with author identification in a virtual environment. As a data collection instrument, questionnaires prepared using the technological tool Google Forms were applied in the 7th and 8th periods of the Language Course, with selected questions from the National Student Performance Exam – ENADE/2021 as a backdrop. As a theoretical-methodological contribution, we sought authors such as: Koch (2003); Bechara (2006); Geraldi (2006); Moran (2015;); Kastro e.al. (2013); Monteiro & Santos (2019, among others. It is important to highlight that this study may reveal data that can diagnose the linguistic basis of the aforementioned students. Analysis of the questionnaires demonstrated that there was low student adherence in the questionnaire application phase, but despite the low number of participants, it was possible to evaluate the performance of students in the linguistic questionnaire extracted from the Enade test.