From the 1980's decade on, the thesis that the text is a teaching unit for language learning is a recurring theme in academic studies and scientific events of the area, as well as in official documents and in initial and continuing teacher training. This article intends to analyse some of the effects of continuing education courses on the teaching practice, based on the planning elaborated by a teacher in three distinct moments of working with texts in class. The object of analysis is composed by three activities which represent the pedagogical practice of this teacher: one conducted in a context previous to the participation in continuing education programs, and two within contexts of continuing education. The analysis shows a significant change in the work with text production in the Portuguese Language classroom in the three moments analysed. What distinguished them is the concept of text adopted by the teacher and the way of approaching this concept in writing activities. The study indicates that continuing education may contribute for the construction of another reality for teaching and learning languages at school.
Teacher training; Portuguese language teaching; Text production