PROJETO DE LETRAMENTO NA MOBILIZAÇÃO DE NARRATIVAS LOCAIS

Abstract

Abstract: In the continued training for Portuguese language teachers via PROFLETRAS, in the context of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), the literacy project “Memoirs of Ielmo Marinho” was developed in a public school in Rio Grande do Norte, based on the understanding of reading and writing as social practices of language use. In view of this, this article aims to discuss the network of activities and genres around the literacy project of local narratives in the municipality of Ielmo Marinho – RN, based on an excerpt from a master’s dissertation defended in the program. This action research is qualitative, prioritizing methodological strategies that underlie the writing of local narratives through field notes and interviews carried out with residents of localities in the municipality, rewritten and retextualized in the classroom by agent students. For this analysis, the research is based on the dialogical conception of language of the Bakhtin Circle (2003; 2022) and on Literacy Studies from a sociocultural perspective (Kleiman, 1995; Barton and Hamilton, 2000). As results, we observed that literacy practices focus on reading, writing and speaking as social practices of language use, from a dialogical and collaborative perspective. The project documents local narratives and strengthens historical roots through a formative writing process that considers the deterritorialization of learning places, making students protagonists in the learning process.

Keywords: Memoirs. Local narratives. Literacy project. Social practices.