Caracterização da prova de vestibular UFCG como um gênero discursivo: uma análise da textualização das questões.

Abstract

Considering that the College Entrance Exam is characterized by being a social practice circulating at school, which assists the interests of the social groups, directly or indirectly composing the social instance where it is carried out, this study is an attemptto verify if the Entrance Exam can really be understood as such. Our general objective is to characterize the College Entrance Exam as a textual genre, and our specific objectives are a) to identify the types of textual sequence which compose the objective and discursive questions of the Portuguese, History, Chemistry and Physicstests of the UFCG Entrance Exam, b) to verify the predominant textual sequence type in these questions. In this qualitative research, we analyzed the questions of the exams carried out in the first stage of 2004, and the first and the second stages of 2005, comprising a total of 135 questions. The main result obtained in this study was that the “College entrance exam” genre is characterized by being predominantly injunctive and expositive, which is related to the social functions it needs to assist: on the one hand, it is a selective evaluation, on the other hand, it is a genre which represents, in the academy, a form of knowledge production which still gives privileges the scientific content as being true in itself.