The teaching practice of the mother tongue teacher on communicative competence among the students of the second phase of Elementary School I

The doctoral research sought to investigate how the communicative competence and its relation with the pedagogical practice in Portuguese language is developed and if the teaching practice in the mother tongue develops the communicative competence in the students. Thus, it analyzed the teaching practice of the mother tongue teacher in relation to the acquisition of communicative competence in the Municipal Agricultural School "Dep. Hitler Sansão, with 149 students from the 5th to the 9th grade and teachers of the Portuguese language. As for the quantitative qualitative research approach, of the descriptive type, which translated the information collected into numbers, it was used for data collection, closed questionnaire and semistructured interview with the teachers. Thus, the teaching practice still does not develop the communicative competence, because it is focused on normative grammar, yet, they present difficulties to pass the contents in a contextualized way.