Letramento científico a partir de relatórios de pesquisa no ensino fundamental II: uma intervenção pedagógica

Abstract

In this dissertation, I investigate how the approach of scientific literacy can develop reading, production writing properties of elementary students through the catalysis of knowledge resulting from the production of the research report (RR) genre. For this, I remember that these texts were submitted to the rewriting procedure, motivated by a didactic-pedagogical intervention that I proposed together with other professors from the other disciplines, with the Scientific Fair as the culmination of this intervention. This research is situated in the field of Applied Linguistics (LA), more precisely in what I consider to be its interdisciplinary role, since I see it as an innovative way of producing science in the context of the emerging paradigm, in order to meet the more contemporary demands of the studies In Human and Social Sciences. More directly, I mobilize literacy studies as social practice, specially the studies of scientific literacy as a possibility of contribution in the area of Portuguese Language teaching. The corpus of this dissertation is composed by 08 (eight) fragments of RPs produced by students of 8th grade of elementary school after the culmination of a Science Fair promoted by the school in 2015. I take these RR as constituent texts of the corpus, even though it is produced from "satellite genres", considering that they were the texts produced at the end of the pedagogical intervention that I proposed. The research was developed at the Municipal School Tocantins (EMT), located in the city of Imperatriz, state of Maranhão (MA). The research is developed in two moments: I) when I was a Portuguese Language teacher of the class; And II) when a new teacher continued the work, due to my license, and due to my academic activities of the Master's degree. The research approach I take is qualitative. I take this approach as pertinent given its interpretative character that invited me to take a more critical and sensitive look during the treatment of the data generated. The type of research undertaken is the documentary research action, since I analyze the RR as semi-instrumental instruments of social practices specific to the intervention that I proposed at the end of a series of activities that guided them in the written production. Moreover, I consider these RRs to be documents that semioticize interdiscursive situations specific to the context in which such documents were produced. The analysis of the data reveals a significant advance of the writing skills of the RR students, understanding that the scientific literacy contributed to a considerable reduction of the problems of this modality of the language.