ARGUMENTARY TEXT IN THE CLASSROOM: A WRITING PROPOSAL WITH EDITORIALS
Keywords: Textual production. Editorial. Teaching. Following teaching. Argumentative operators.
We know that there is still much to study and research in teaching Portuguese in order to improve didactic practice, especially in elementary school. Given this, more work is needed in the area of textual production as students have many difficulties in articulating ideas and this is evident in argumentative textual genres where we perceive little consistency of arguments to defend or refute a point of view. Given the above, our work has as its research object a study on the construction of the Editorial argumentative text, produced by students in the classroom. As a general objective, we sought to investigate the argumentative process in the construction of the editorial textual genre produced by 9th grade students. In this sense, we focus on the importance of the argumentative persuasive aspect, associated with the functional question, of the argumentative operators in the articulation of the editorial textual structure. This is because some of the argumentative operators characterize this genre, as well as the specificity of the argument, since it encompasses both verbal and / or nonverbal linguistic aspects, as well as the rhetoric that is constantly interacting. (PINTO, 2010, p. 199). However, in this research, we analyze the argumentative operators in the students' written production, such as: operators that add arguments in favor; operators who misunderstand the arguments [...] (Kock and Elias (2017), by conducting a Didactic Sequence (SD) along the lines advocated by Dolz; Noverraz; Schneuwly (2004)), noting whether there has been progress on the use of operators. Our work is justified by the need to do a research focused on textual production, specifically for the analysis of argumentative construction in magazine editorials, by students, without, however, excluding reading. In addition, this study becomes relevant because it presents one more approach to argumentation in a textual genre such as Editorial as a written production in school. As for the methodology, our research constitutes an action research, because we use as laboratory our own classroom where the teacher / researcher and the students are the participants of the scientific investigation. We base our research on the studies of some theorists of Applied Linguistics and Textual Linguistics, including Marcuschi (2005, 2008); Koch (2016); Kock and Elias (2010); Antunes (2009, 2010) of Textual Linguistics; Passarelli (2004) that deals with writing; Marcuschi (2008); Bakhtin (2003) on textual genres; Plantin (2008); Koch (2011) and Fiorin (2017) on Argumentation; and Soares (2016); Melo (1985); Souza (2006) about Editorial. Regarding the results, we could notice, after the intervention with the use of DS, that the students do not vary the argumentative operators in the written production, but vary in their argumentative function, although they demonstrate little knowledge of these linguistic marks, repeating the same operators. times throughout the text. We also realize that students misuse these language resources, compromising the argumentation of the text, as they do not correspond to the discursive meaning or semantic value of these expressions. Therefore, this research was only possible because we found ourselves in a Professional Master's Degree Program in National Network (PROFLETRAS), whose project made us look more properly at our teaching practice.