ACADEMIC LITERACY FOR LANGUAGES GRADUATE COURSE UNDERGRADUATES: BUILDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR ACTIVE AND TACTICAL ATTITUDE

Abstract

This article is a result of an ethnographic-based research carried out in the Applied Linguistics area in order to understand the constitution of Languages Graduate Course undergraduate students as producers of Portuguese–written texts, with a focus on active and tactical attitude. The corpus consists of students’ interviews and writing and rewriting texts activities, which were held throughout two disciplines of the course, taught by the same teacher. Data analysis highlights few times when students performed active and tactical attitude in the writing process activities in both disciplines. This result is among other reasons due to the history of each student as a producer of texts in basic education, and above all the absence of a significant work in producing texts in the Languages Graduate Course.