The development of language abilities: analysis of the didactic sequence of the genre of opinion in late-night High School

Abstract

This research is inserted in the applied field of language studies and has as general objective to evaluate how a didactic sequence was recontextualized in a class of the third year of secondary school in a state public school located in Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul. The didactic sequence was produced collaboratively by two teachers: one who worked as a collaborator and the other as a researcher. The specific objectives are: to analyze the didactic sequence with regard to the distribution of language abilities and to analyze the development of the pupils’ linguistic abilities in relation to the writing of the genre of opinion, after the didacticization of the didactic sequence, through the initial and final productions. The research is based on the theoretical-methodological assumptions of socio-discursive interactionism (Bronckart, 2006, 2007), embodied in the theories of the Geneva school (Schneuwly; Dolz; Noverraz, 2004). Methodologically, this is a qualitative, documentary research. The corpus is constituted by didactic sequences, initial and final productions of the students. The final results, defined from the evaluation of the didactic sequence and the pupils’ productions, show that the students advanced significantly in the linguistic-discursive capacity, but only relatively in the capacities of action and discursive.