Produzindo textos, situando gêneros: qual o papel do livro didático nesta questão.

Abstract

As the practice of written composition is predominantly confined to schools, this work investigates the treatment given in portuguese textbooks to proposals for the production of genres belonging to the fictional and jornalistic domains. Teaching manuais insist on asking for the production of stories, legends, newspaper colum ns, reports, in terview s, news etc, withou t taking into consideration the necessary factors for achieving these goals. On observing that the act of producing written texts is often treated as a form of expression which is bound to the control of linguistic structures solely dependent on the writer, this space has been utilized to reinforce the necessity for producing a text as an act of socially situated language. With this end in view, it is recommended that the teaching of text production be based on genre theory which also takes into account the socio-communicative proposal defined by Bronckart (1999) and Dolz ande Schneuwly (1998).