A análise linguística como uma dimensão do estudo do gênero textual através de projetos didáticos de gênero

Abstract

The discussion about the teaching of grammar is an ever present theme, when it comes to thinking about the teaching and learning of language. Work based on a traditional conception still prevails in most schools, but new methodological options and different teaching conceptions have been searching to reframe it. Based on an interactionist conception of language, it is believed that teaching can be organized on textual genres. Using the methodological option of the Teaching Projects of Genre (Guimarães and Kersch, 2012), this study intends to contribute with the reflections on a linguistic analysis work tied to the specificities of textual genre and to the linguistic capabilities of the students. It is proposed, therefore, that, in the process of textual genre didactization, a linguistic dimension be approached through linguistic analysis. Accordingly, the development of two Teaching Projects of Genre are analyzed, emphasizing the workshops on linguistic analysis. These workshops focused on essential linguistic elements to the developed genre (according to the educational reference model put together to the genre) and those elements seen as necessary from the initial productions of the students. It is followed then by the comparative analyses between the initial and the final productions to verify the results based on the proposed activities. This analysis guides the reflection on the possibility of considering the teaching of grammar through linguistic analysis in the work with textual genre. As a theoretical basis for these reflections, were adopted the notion of genre from Bakhtin (2003), which considers the dialogical aspects of reading, and the concept of linguistic analysis from Geraldi (1984) , used in different studies on the teaching of grammar, in particular the one proposed by Antunes (2007, 2010). The conclusions we were referred to by the results show that it is possible to revalue the linguistic work as from the study of textual genres, toward valuing the constituent aspects of the genre and the reflections on how the language is actually organized in different communicative situations in which the students are engaged.