A produção do gênero artigo de opinião: desenvolvimento da escrita em turma do 9º ano do Ensino Fundamental

Abstract

Experiences related to the development of writing in the routine of schools is something that concern and promote anxiety to the teachers. Concerning about this situation creates some questions, that is: how can we act, as Portuguese teachers, to contribute effectively to improve the writing and reading skills, and to reduce the difficulties to the textual production working with the discursive genre opinion article? What strategies can contribute to improve the writing and reading competence of the students to become reflexive and critic subjects about the reality they face? Searching for the answers to this situation, the main objective of this study is to present a pedagogical proposal, based on a didactic sequence, that suggest a development of modules to guide writing and rewriting in the textual production having as tool the discursive genre opinion article. The actions to achieve the objective are in the intervention proposal with the use of the discursive genre opinion article as a motivator and efficient tool to develop the writing competence to the students from 9th level of the primary school based on the documents Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais and Base Nacional Comum Curricular that show, methodologically, the viability and the importance of this discursive genre and the argumentative strategies used naturally by the speaker. To become a literate nowadays, a person needs to be able to attend necessities of reading and writing each more diverse and sophisticate. Based on this understanding, it is possible to identify students, the most of them, are not ready as they should to face the diversity of this literate culture, due to the evident difficulty they have to reading, interpretation and textual production in the diverse types of discursive genres. In this context, this study aims to engage objectives based on the Mikhail Bakhtin and the Circle’s conception of discursive genre. In addition to this, it has contributions from Textual Linguistic; from argumentation scope; from the Literacy studies and from didactic sequence of genre. This study treats and argues writing as a process, it presents argumentation as a pillar to the opinion article, also pointing the strategies to approach the composition of this genre, understanding this discursive genre needs to participate of the discursive field of the student to he/she become able to face scholar language situations that requires positioning about determinate polemic theme. This study aims to work with the discursive genre opinion article based on the development of a didactic sequence to be applied in the 9th level of the primary school (final levels), planned as an intervention proposal, in a qualitative way and research-action type, because practice with reflection is a privileged investigative path in this kind of study, providing to the participants conditions to question their own practice in a critic and reflexive way.