The learning of Portuguese Language in times of liquid modernity: some considerations about the learning of reading and writing by aged people in Brazil and Mozambique

Abstract

This article aspires to compare, even in an initial manner, the learning constructed by aged women, according to Brazilian and Mozambiquean realities. The concept of "outsourced writing", created by the authors, and of "liquid modernity" (Z. Bauman) are extremely important to analyze the learning of Portuguese Language by aged people in the cities of Guarulhos and Maputo. Finally, the authors make some considerations about the exigency of quickness established nowadays in big cities, although many times this necessity of speed is contrary to the necessary time for learning, in this case, to read and to write.