Genres as recurrent actions: analysis of teaching materials of Portuguese as a foreign language
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https://doi.org/10.12957/matraga.2018.33976Keywords:
Genre. Social Action. Portuguese as a Foreign Language. Teaching Material.Abstract
This paper aims to analyze the way that text genres are explored in two different teaching materials prepared for specific publics. The first material analyzed was elaborated by the author Denise Barros Weiss, professor at the Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, and it was used in a Portuguese as a Foreign Language course for intermediate students. The second material analyzed was used in another Portuguese as a Foreign Language course which happened at Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Sudeste de Minas Gerais (IF Sudeste) in 2016. It was used the definition of genres as typified and recurrent social actions, which was sustained by Miller (1984) and Bazerman (1994). Furthermore, the definition of text sustained by Bronckart (2012) and the notions of “communicative purpose” and “discourse community” elaborated by Swales (1990) were the basis for the analysis of the data. The concepts were used in order to enlighten the way as we analyse the examples of activities. Therefore we intend with this work to demonstrate that, through the exploration of diverse text genres, the social roles and the actions performed by the speakers are emphasized during the teaching of a foreign language.Downloads
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