O gênero entrevista e as práticas de linguagem no ensino de EJA

Abstract

This study aimed contributing to students development of reading and writing skills and assuring its importance for the effective use of the mother tongue to the students of the IV Scholar Cycle (8th and 9th Brazilian’s grade) of Youth and Adult Education (EJA in Brazilian Portuguese), from a Elementary Education State School, in Serra Branca city - PB. The research was necessary due to numerous difficulties faced by the students in several of aspects related to verbal language and its effective use in everyday social contexts. About the textual genres adopted, this research was based on theories of Bakhtin (1998), Dolz, Schneuwly & Noverraz (2004), and Marcuschi (2008). Regarding to language, it was sought theoretical support in Solé (1998), Koch & Elias (2008), National Curricular Parameters from Brazil - PCNs (Brazil, 1998), among others. From a methodological point of view, this paper is characterized as an action research, with qualitative analysis based on a didactic intervention guided by Dolz and Schneuwly's (2004) didactic sequence proposal. Through the data collected from this work by the interview genre and the language practices in EJA classes, it was possible to conclude that the subjects involved in it have acquired skills and improved their reading and writing skills, based on the perspective of interaction with language, as well as they acquired access to literacy basic conditions.