CAETANO, G. P.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/2316185069609813; CAETANO, Gilmara Pereira.
Abstract:
Considering all the changes the world has been facing in the current globalized
scenario, the way we communicate and share information have also modified, and such fact
cannot be neglected in the educational context. OCEM (in English: Curriculum Guidelines for
High School) is an official document directed to provide parameters to the teachers in their
pedagogical practices. Regarding the foreign language teaching, the skills of reading, writing,
listening and oral communication should be developed through the new perspectives of
literacy in High School. In this research, we aim at analyzing activities that focus on writing
skill, taking into consideration that, even though the official documents consider the
development of writing skills as relevant as the development of oral skills, the writing process
is still less emphasized in the English classes of the public school context. Thus, recognizing
the importance of this skill for English learning, the main objective of this study is to analyze
the activities of the writing production section of four units in the textbook Way to Go!3 in
order to verify in what extent they dialogue with the proposals of new literacies recommended
by OCEM. To do so, we are theoretically based on the assumptions of Kern (2000), Dourado
(2000), Soares (2003), Souza (2011), Duboc (2016), among others. This is a qualitative study,
since data is interpreted, and it can also be qualified as documentary, because the
aforementioned textbook is a document. The results reveal that, among the four writing
activities, two of them correspond to the assumptions of the new literacies.