Letramento e escrita: análise de atividades no livro de inglês Way to go!

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.