Estratégias metacognitivas na produção textual: análise de seu impacto na escrita de resenhas

Abstract

The objective of this research was to verify if the learning and the use of metacognitive strategies have a positive impact on writing, making use for that of the gender reviews. The theoretical framework adopted was that of Cognitive Psychology, guided mainly by the ideas of Flavell (1976); to whom metacognition is regarded as cognitive monitoring of the process of reasoning and/or solving problems. The method was qualitative, involving two undergraduate students of a private school of education, located in the interior of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The procedures consisted of seven meetings, which the purposes were: (a) to provide an explanation about how to write a ‘review’ and how to employ metacognitive strategies in order to do that; (b) to write three reviews (the last of which was about a book already read and previously reviewed); (c) to collect two written self-assessments of the participants about their respective writing productions; and (d) to interview each student, in order to gather their reflection about the process of writing, when it is articulated to the use of metacognitive strategies. Following Flavell's suggestion (1976), three categories of analysis were created (knowledge of the person; knowledge of the task; and knowledge of the metacognitive strategies), as well as criteria to identify the subjects’ level of domain regarding the use of metacognition. The results indicated that there was an evolution in the writing of reviews, with participants moving from level 1, at the beginning of the work, to level 3, at the end of it. These results suggest that metacognitive strategies must be intentionally taught during formal education, an outcome that emphasizes their importance in promoting the ability of writing. But school can only do this throughout a solid teacher education, something that the country has not yet to offer