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Résumé

The Brazilian teacher who cares about the teaching of his or hermother tong will certanly have wondered about the main reasonsand objectives for the teaching of Portuguese and about what todo to reach these objectives. This paper will thus discuss two mainpoints of view: a – the main reason of the school is to teach standardPortuguese; b – standard Portuguese should be tought withoutemphasis on Grammar. After having discussed these topics in amore theoretical way, the author goes into the classroom, presentingpractical and objetive proposals for the teaching of standardPortuguese without emphasis on Grammar.