O ensino-aprendizado do ato de argumentar na resenha crítica de filme

Abstract

This study has the aim of investigating the possibility of teaching students the act of argumentation in the writing skill of the Portuguese language up from the teaching/knowledge process of the argumentative genre known as movie critical review, in a class of 9th degree of a Public Elementary School. The adopted methodological procedure was the application of a Didactic Sequence (DS) of the referred genre, elaborated under Dolz, Noverraz e Scheneuwly’s approach (2004), who propose an initial production that serves as reference to guide the teacher´s interventions, according to the students’ necessities, detected in the writing of initial texts. In such DS the learners’ activities are planned and grouped in modules that end up with the re-doing of the texts in the final version. This choice is justified by its rendering of the visualization of the writing process since the very moment of the teacher’s intervention until its end, besides allowing him/her to observe how the teaching of the constitutive elements of a gender and of its production conditions give to the apprentice a better linguistic discursive performance in the written skill. Studies in the fields of textual linguistics and textual genres have shown relevant contributions for the understanding of the language as a psycho-social phenomenon attached to human practices and activities which result from the interaction among subjects aiming at the same specific purposes, within social and historically situated contexts. The present research circumscribes itself under this perspective, and its outputs attest the possibility of teaching argumentative genres in Elementary School, according to the analysis of the students’ textual productions, which demonstrate their advancement in the act of argumentation and how it favors their textual progression.