Marcas de competência comunicativa na produção de palestras.

Abstract

Based on the perspective of teaching language in use, linked to the theoretical principles of the Interactional Sociolinguistics, in this study, the linguistic and discursive marks that turn out to be indicators of communicative competence in the production of the lecture genre for students of 3rd year of High School in a public school in the city of Campina Grande, Paraíba were investigated. It was analyzed, therefore, a corpus composed of the production of five lectures given by students and collected at the final stage of a didactic sequence designed and implemented by the researcher, who was also the teacher of the students. According to the reading of the data, it was possible to realize in the exposure of the lectures the activation of skills and competencies accumulated during school years, such as interaction skills in public speaking situation and in cultural and linguistic knowledge required to plan the presentation. It was also found that students made use of typical variants of informal situations for communication using variations in the production of the lecture genre.