THE TEXT PLAN IN THE GENRE PERSONAL REPORT: A PROPOSAL FOR INTERVENTION IN A PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE CLASSROOM
Teaching; Plan of text; Personal report; Narrative sequence.
In this work, we chose as object of study the text plan materialized in the genre Personal Reporting. It is an investigation defined from the problems identified in the written texts of the students of the 7th Year of elementary school, regarding the domain of the text plan of the genre Personal Report, carried out in a public school in the state of Paraíba. In this context, we observed that the students did not have the knowledge that would make them capable of producing a text with a definite plan, connecting the whole and the parts, from the recognition of a genre. In this way, we defined to investigate the written text produced by these students, in order to analyze how they organized their texts, in order to fulfill a specific communicative function. Theoretically, we take an interactive view of language, having the text as an empirical object and teaching and learning, based on discussions of some theorists (ADAM, 2011; MARCUSCHI, 2008, KOCH, 2011). We reflected on the text plan, in relation to the discursive genre Personal Report, having been the category defined in the analysis of the textual productions of the students, discussion subsidized in Adam (2011) and Cabral (2013). From the methodological point of view, we subsidize ourselves in action research, given our interference in school reality, aiming at confronting the problems related to Portuguese language teaching, in our own classroom. In this direction, we adopted a qualitative and interpretative approach to analyze the data obtained, the students' texts, from the context in which they occurred, which made possible the construction of their meanings. For the constitution of the corpus of research, we follow the guidelines of Dolz, Noverraz and Schneuwly (2004), regarding the procedure of the didactic sequence, with a view to the constitution of the corpus and to the development of the intervention proposal. The results of this study showed that the students obtained advances in the structuring of the text plans, as well as in the use of narrative textual sequences, when comparing the initial and final versions of Personal Reports. These results point to the effectiveness of systematic work in the classroom, with a view to minimizing detected problems. The result of this work with the students also allowed the organization of a collection of printed texts, in the Personal Report genre, presented to the school community as the final product of this research.