ORALITY AND TEACHING OF PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE: THE GENRE SEMINAR IN CLASSROOM
Orality. Teaching. Oral Genres. Seminar. Action research.
The classroom approach to oral genres enables students to develop skills that will be useful for specific real events in different interaction situations. Therefore, this approach requires, also to what is predicted for the written modality, planning and elaboration of pedagogic activities directed to the most different genres. In this work, we aim to investigate how the students of the 9th grade use the oral genre seminar, since we have observed some difficulties in the implementation of said genre in classroom activities. As a means of providing conditions for students to overcome their difficulties, we proposed to develop actions, through a didactic sequence, in order to work this genre of the oral modality. In this direction, we are based on studies that follow sociointerational perspectives, focusing on oral genres and the teaching of these genres. Based on the studies of Dolz, Schneuwly and Noverraz (2011), Marcuschi (2005, 2015, 2016), Cavalcante e Melo (2006), Travaglia (2007, 2013), among others. We followed a qualitative research approach (BOGDAN and BIKLEN, 1994) and, with regard to type, we adopted action research (THIOLLENT, 2011). We did a work, pedagogically guided by the Didactic Sequence (DOLZ, NOVERRAZ and SCHNEUWLY), in order to follow the development of the students regarding the practice of the seminar genre. The corpus analyzed (the seminars produced), allowed to verify that the students presented advances in the use of the study genre, in different aspects, comparing the initial and final productions. With this result, we consider that the problems initially demonstrated by the students could be minimized by adopting a systematic teaching approach, involving the teaching of the formal oral genre in the classroom.