SCHOOL LITERACY: A PROPOSAL FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF STUDENTS' COMPREHENSION IN QUESTION UTTERANCES IN EVALUATIVE ACTIVITIES
Literacy. Reading and understanding. Question Utterance Gender. Action research.
Using the language in a proficient way, attending to the needs impelled by the social interactions, is a necessity that the Portuguese Language teaching seeks to attend, in a way that assumes as main objective of its classes the extension of the competence regarding the reading and understanding of texts, materialized in the most diverse genres used in the most different contexts of language use. Regarding the use of this competence in the classroom of any subject, however, there is a rather significant difficulty on the part of the students when asked to answer the questions of evaluative activities, being presented a high degree of incomprehension in relation to the Utterance of Questions. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the aspects that make it difficult for students to understand the reading of utterance of questions of evaluative activities. For that, a Gender Didactic Project (PDG) is developed in order to contribute to the student's better performance in reading and understanding the question utterance. This research is carried out with students of the 8th grade of Elementary School of a public school of the state school network in the city of Natal - RN and adopts a qualitative approach focusing on action research, based on the perspectives of Bodgan; Biklen (1994), Flick (2009) and Thiollent (2005). As regards the theoretical basis, reading and teaching are conceived from the constructs of authors such as Solé (2013, 2014), Antunes (2003), Alliende; Condemarín (2005) and Koch; Elias (2009); the studies of Koch (2015; 2016), Antunes (2010) and Marcuschi (2008); the genres are discussed following the assumptions of Bakhtin (2010 [1992]) and Bronckart (1999); and addresses the Question Utterance Gender based on the approaches of Paz (2001) and Lino de Araújo (2017). From the results of the research, which is currently underway, it is intended to alleviate the students 'comprehension difficulties in relation to the questions utterance in order to obtain better results in the evaluation activities and, consequently, to increase the students' reading and comprehension competence for the everyday communicative situations.