SCHOOL LITERACY: REFLECTIONS ABOUT TEENAGERS'S WRITING PRODUCTION

ABSTRACT:

This paper presents a research, developed in 2007 in a municipal school of Belo Horizonte involving 42 teenagers aged between 12 and 17 years with paths marked by school failure. From the participant point of view, literacy events were organized and analyzed. Here we present the analysis of two kinds of texts produced by teenagers: advertising and note, taking as theoretical perspective language in its social and dialogical nature, produced as human action. From the analysis it was found that students read and produced texts in the classroom watched by the actions of the teacher who placed at the disposal of the students various textual genres, but also encouraged the collective reading of texts produced by them. We also observed the teenagers' participation in the redefinition of the functions of writing.

Keywords: Writing; Textual gender; Teenagers