A escrita monitorada como ferramenta pedagógica na aquisição de um gênero

Abstract

This research is the unfolding of research macro-project “In behalf of a pedagogy of writing: proposals for solutions to writing problems presented in educational situation”, Colégio de Aplicação João XXIII/UFJF-MG. The work departs from pointing out the low literacy level of 7th graders in a local public school in the outskirts of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, and, consequently addresses the need of training efficient text readers and writers. The object of the research entails a reflection on how textual genres should be approached in class, more specifically news writing, as tool to linguistic development in oral and written skills. Such study is underlain by the hypothesis that only didactic models that allow for the teacher’s real mediation are efficient in teaching/learning of reading and writing. It is then assumed the observation and application in class of teacher-mediated writing proposals, namely MONITORED WRITING, focused here, which consists in an itinerary of textualization based on a model text to be deconstructed and reconstructed through a set of instructions followed by the students. The study aims to investigate if including MONITORED WRITING pedagogical tool in the modules of canonic didactic sequence (DOLZ E SCHENEUWLY, 2004) accounts for the necessary social cognitive development to train proficient readers and writers of “news writing” genre. The research embodies research-action methodology and encompasses quantitative and qualitative procedures as analytical method. Upon the corpus analysis of all the didactic sequence workshops, it was found that the didactic sequence enriched with monitored writing modules is efficient to develop reading and writing skills, considering that final productions of the students compared to earlier ones showed significant progress in news writing.