O gênero textual artigo de opinião: a função da leitura e da produção textual no desenvolvimento do olhar crítico do aluno.

Abstract

There are several types of texts, each has its own functionality and specific typology, they are used daily in order to provide people interaction. We live in a very demanding world, it demands from us to position yourself facing current issues from our society, for that reason, Portuguese language teachers must prepare their students for this reality. For that, type text opinion piece work is upheld in classrooms, so students may have critical eyes when it comes to controversial issues, as well as critically give their opinion, arguing and defending their point of views. This work aims at developing experiences of reading and production of type of text opinion piece in order to stimulate high school students critical thinking. More precisely, showing type of texts definition and their main characteristics and functionalities of opinion piece type; proposing experiences of reading and production of type of text opinion piece for a high school class; and analyzing students text production from those, providing assistance to deepen opinion piece studies in Portuguese classes, to conclude, bringing back to the full teacher those data looking forward to upcoming activities about type of texts. Theoretical background is based on renowned scholars as, Marcuschi (2008, 2010), Bakhtin (1997), Antunes (2010, 2017), Koch (2009, 2018), BNCC (2017), PCN+ (2002), among others. It is an applied linguistics area study of explanatory nature, which took place from a bibliographical research and research action, on second grade high school classes in a public school based on Litoral Norte area of Paraíba, starting on April 20th to April 26th, 2021. Corpus was made through a survey, synchronous meeting observance and /students’ production of articles opinion piece. Through this work analyses, opinion piece article usage in Portuguese classes was proven handful when it comes to instigating students to have critical eyes and reflective thinking facing reading and text production of this type, turning to be possible for the student to give opinion in a reflective and critical way as well as becoming their own learning process protagonists. Furthermore, this research results also proved that text production rewriting practice to be crucial, plus, teachers to, during the production review, take notes of suggestions to a better student comprehension.