A pontuação e a produção de sentidos: uma proposta interventiva na educação de jovens e adultos

Abstract

The inefficiency of grammar rules teaching, which is often dissociated from their effective use in texts, has been verified in EJA materials. In addition, the themes addressed by the materials are sometimes far from the reality of most students. In this context, this thesis aims presented an didactic intervention proposal, whose purpose was to bridge the gap between the study of grammar - specifically punctuation - and text and the student reality, based on the Linguistic Analysis approach (MENDONÇA, 2006; ANTUNES, 2003; 2014). Through this, the student was able to perceive the importance and the role of punctuation in several genres of daily life. In this action research, students were led to observe different genres of everyday life in regard to how they are punctuated. Morevoer, they produced texts from various journalistic genres so that, at the end of the intervention project, a newspaper was prepared to be distributed in the community. The whole sequence was based on linguistic, epilingual and metalinguistic reflection (FRANCHI, 1991), in order to reach the systematization and the construction of the meanings of the text, observing the importance of the punctuation for such (DAHLET, 2006). The results obtained in this action research point to the need to establish a relationship between the teaching of punctuation and textual genres, through reflexive procedures, considering that the text reveals linguistic uses, through production and reception of meaning, in order to establish readability and interpretation.