Uma análise retrospectiva do gênero do discurso e do suporte textual nas tarefas de produção escrita do Celpe-Bras (2006- 2016)

Abstract

The exam that provides the Portuguese Language Proficience Certificate – Celpe-Bras has as theoretical assumption the communicative approach. Thus, it has as features the emphasis on usage of the language, the use of authentic materials and integrated evaluation of the candidates’ habilities. The evaluation of the exam’s written part happens through tasks which favors the use of the language for a social purpose. Because the communication happens by genres we used the theoretical assumptions of Bakthin (2003) and Marcuschi (2008) to support our research. Thereby, this work has as a purpose to analyze the speech genre's approach and suport at the written part Celpe-Bras’ questions from 2006 to 2016. The results of this work point to a need to uniforme the approach given to the genres of discourse and the support with the most recent theoretical assumptions of Linguistics. That is why the genres don’t appear explicitly on the exam questions and they are placed as a support in some cases as well. The genres used as motivators to the writing belong, mostly, to the journalistc esphere. That turns the exam less diversificated and contributes to many aspects of brazilian culture be left aside. In addition, the exam directs itself for a specific public: private companies' employees stablished temporarily in Brazil or foreigners who are in profissional activities in the country, because the exam requires more genres inside the work sphere.