A (re)escrita do gênero autobiografia na Educação de Jovens e Adultos

Abstract

The written production of genres in Portuguese language classes, in Youth and Adult Education (EJA), still poses a great challenge to teachers, despite all the teaching and theoretical support already built to date. This teaching modality, according to official national documents, aims to provide learning opportunities to those subjects who were left out of schooling. In the case of the Portuguese language, offering access to legitimate knowledge regarding speaking, reading and writing to those young and adult students who, for some reason, did not attend school at an appropriate age. Given this reality, EJA is a modality that requires different methodological views and practices, especially when it comes to teaching/learning reading and writing. With this in mind, we chose to work with the autobiography textual genre, as we believe that writing what one has experienced is a path to developing autonomous and effective writing. Thus, this research aims to investigate the process of writing the autobiography genre by EJA students, IV cycle of Elementary School, based on an intervention proposal in the classroom. Methodologically, it is action research, interventionist in nature and with a qualitative approach. The process of constituting the data took place through the development and application of a didactic sequence to teach the written production of the autobiography genre, in an EJA class at a public school in the city of Juripiranga-PB. The theoretical foundation is based on official documents, mainly LDB (Brazil, 1996) and BNCC (Brazil, 2018); in education authors, Gadotti (2011) and Silva (2015), and Linguistics, Bakhtin (2011), Marcuschi (2005, 2008), Antunes (2010), Serrano (1994), Costa (2014), Koch and Elias (2014; 2021). The results of the work developed indicate, among other points, advances that favored the development of writing skills in the autobiography genre, through the didactic sequence, mainly with regard to the global aspects of the text. Finally, the research brings as a product a compilation of autobiographical texts, produced by the students participating in this research.