Medeiros, Maria Assuncao SilvaFirmino, José Vilmar2020-11-252020-11-252020-08-12FIRMINO, José Vilmar. Operadores argumentativos no artigo de opinião: uma intervenção através da sequência didática. 2020. 163f. Dissertação (Mestrado Profissional em Letras) - Centro de Ensino Superior do Seridó, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2020.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/30679Written text production requires constant practical mobilization, using didactic strategies and procedures that favor the appropriation of this important social practice. Thus, our research object refers to the use of argumentative operators in texts produced by students through the textual genre of opinion. Thus, the general objective was to show students the semantic importance of argumentative operators in the textual production required in the classroom, in a 9th grade class at a public school in the municipality of Barcelona-RN. As for the specific objectives, the first was to apply the Didactic Sequence, suggested in Dolz, Noverraz and Schineuwly (2004), as a pedagogical intervention proposal with the purpose of improving written production. The second was to perceive the students' evolutionary process regarding the argumentative textual construction in the opinion article genre, in their written productions. As for the methodology, our research constitutes an action research, based on Thiollent (2011), with a qualitative / quantitative approach, with an interpretive basis, in a class with 27 (twenty-seven) students, whose application generated a corpuswith 34 (thirty-four) productions written for analysis.This is because we use our own classroom as a laboratory where the teacher / researcher and the students were participants in the pedagogical intervention. In this perspective, we dialogue with the theoretical contributions of Textual Linguistics and Argumentative Semantics. We seek support from Adam (2008), in relation to Textual Linguistics; Ducrot (1977, 1980), about argumentation in the language; in the studies by Kock (2011) and Koch and Elias (2017), regarding argumentative operators; Marcuschi (2002, 2005), about textual genres; Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca (2005), with studies on argumentative rhetoric; Bakhtin (2003), on the notion of discursive genre; and Antunes (2009), with textual semantics, mainly in the relation of meaning established by the elements of textual cohesion.The results of the analyzes in the students' written productions showed, at the end of this action research, that the use of argumentative operators in opinion articles, started to serve more adequately the communicative purposes. Therefore, employed in a more articulated manner, they showed an evolution, although limited, in the effective use of these linguistic elements, manifested in the textual fabric of the productions analyzed in the corpus of this work, contributing to a more concise and, therefore, more consistent argument in the defense of viewpointsAcesso AbertoOperadores argumentativosArtigo de opiniãoSequência didáticaEnsinoTeachingArgumentative operatorsOpinion articleDidactic sequencemasterThesis