Grammar in action

The games of the clitics

Abstract

“Grammar in Action: Clitic Games” is a set of playful activities for teaching and learning grammatical content within the context of teaching and learning Portuguese as a Mother Tongue. It is based on an action-research project carried out at the Aurélia de Sousa Secondary School in the 2023/2024 school year. This study, within the scope of Educational Linguistics, aims to address the gaps that students in a 9th-grade class showed in activities involving the placement of clitic personal pronouns in Contemporary European Portuguese and, simultaneously, to develop their linguistic awareness. This article presents the theoretical foundations underlying the design of the physical games, which were combined with the implementation of two grammar laboratories in the aforementioned class. Finally, it outlines the conclusions and future research paths within the scope of grammar didactics.