Um estudo de redações no Ensino Médio: perspectivas para o ensino de Língua Portuguesa

Abstract

This work is inserted in the research of Reading, Writing and Education of the Portuguese Language, and its theme is the production of dissertative-argumentative texts on the 1st year of High School. Our objective is to verify problems related to the use of the textuality principles: cohesion and coherence and of the superestructures, from the theoretical estimate of the Textual Linguistic, on a sociocognitive-interactional perspective. Our intention is to contribute with reflections and perspectives that may direct, in classroom, the teaching of the production of written texts, specifically the dissertative-argumentative ones. The corpus selected is established by 76 dissertativeargumentative writings, produced by the students of the 1st year, of Antonio Padilha High School, located in the city of Sorocaba, when SARESP 2004 s exame was realized. In order to direct our studies, we elaborated two research questions: Do the students have problems related to the principles of textuality (cohesion and coherence), that affects the development of their dissertative-argumentative writing's content? and, do they have problems related to the use of the superestructure of the dissertative-argumentative text and to the categories that compose it? The results in this study, have evidenced that the adequate use of the principles of textuality: cohesion and coherence, coherence metarules and textual superestructure contributing for comunicative ability of the students, by means of written texts