Identificação e análise de sinais-termo utilizados no ensino de química

Abstract

This research deals with chemical education for the deaf and its main purpose is to identify the term signs of the Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) used in the teaching of chemistry, in addition to analyzing the linguistic varieties of some of these term signs. The research was constituted as bibliographic research and the initial step consisted in the search for term signs of Chemistry in Libras in databases such as Google Scholar and YouTube using keywords (signs, chemistry, term signs, terminology, deaf, typing). Then, a study of the documents collected from Google Scholar was carried out, cataloging of the term-signs available on YouTube and then a documentary analysis was carried out on these documents. In all, 34 documents were found (scientific articles (12), dissertations (09), scientific abstracts (07), theses (02) and course conclusion work - TCC (04)) and 79 videos containing term signs in Chemistry. Our results showed that researchers in chemical education, with the deaf community, have been dealing with the arduous task of creating a glossary of chemical term signs and that many of these term signs have more than one linguistic variety. Our results also bring contributions in the scope of the work of translators and interpreters of Libras with regard to the teaching of Chemistry, since the description of all cataloged chemical term signs are available in the appendices of this document.