Práticas de leitura e de produção textual: o artigo de opinião numa perspectiva de letramento em língua inglesa

Abstract

This work is to report a survey conducted with a focus group of eight (8) students in the third year of High School in a private school in the basic education in the city of Barbalha, the interior of Ceará. The main objective of the research was to propose reading strategies, interpretation and written productions in the English language for students of this school level, using as support the genre Opinion Article in a literacy perspective. The development of our work sets out the concerns and questions arising from the interaction with teaching professionals in the search for approaches, more efficient methods and techniques for the consolidation of the teaching and learning of the English language such as: Is there lack of textual productions in English classes in high school classes? Is there lack of proper guidance from teachers to conduct more accurate reading and interpretation exercises, as well as text production activities in English? For the realization of our research we started from the concept of language as socio-discursive interaction instrument Bronckart (2012). The notions of genres had as main theoretical contributions from Marcuschi (2012); Bazerman (2006); Dolz, Noverraz and Shneuwly (2004), among others. The reading concepts and textual interpretation were anchored in Munhoz (2002) and Souza (2005). Planning and production of the genre Opinion article was drawn from the teachings of Calkins (2012). The methodology used to achieve the research came from the planning stages of writing a text according to the author quoted above with the preparation of a text of the initial draft, a draft in Portuguese followed by the 1st. written in English with subsequent discussions in the classroom with students, consolidating the steps with the rewriting of the artlice. At the end, we found that the students involved in the process were successful in producing an argumentative textual genre in English language, understanding that this process of authoring writing is essential for the development of consciousness, critical and reflective human beings.