A prática da intertextualidade na formação de leitores e produtores de texto proficientes

Abstract

This thesis has as its theme intertextuality in the formation of proficient readers and writers, and focuses on this phenomenon as a relevant factor for the processing of text in reading and writing. Although there are studies, experiences, and research that show new methodologies to develop a work with reading and writing, which values the student as the main agent of the communicative process and makes him competent on his social practices, there is still a majority of students who sees the act of reading and writing as something empty. One of the resources that could favor a change in this situation would be the practice of intertextuality in the classroom, as it is crucial to make students realize that the texts they read did not appear in isolation, but that they maintain a relationship with existing ones. Moreover, it is in this path that this research is presented, whose general objective is to develop the knowledge of 8th/9th-year students about the intertextuality factor, in the processing of the text both in reading and in writing. For this study, a literature review was initially carried out to identify the theories that address intertextuality, discussing its nature, its typification, its importance and relevance, as well as focusing on intertextuality as an object of activities in Portuguese language classes to clarify what is the role that it can fulfill in the practice of reading and text production. Therefore, studies by several authors were considered, such as Abaurre and Pontara (1999), Val (2000), Bakthin (2003), Soares (2004), Fiorin (2006), Koch & Elias (2006), Bazerman (2007), Marcuschi (2009), Koch, Bentes & Cavalcante (2012), Antunes (2017). In methodological terms, this work was developed through action research, for a recurring problem in two classes of the eighth year that was found in Municipal School of Basic Education (EMEB) Piauí, which became the target research/observation, it was immediately thought about the interventional actions that could confront the problem found in those classes, but, for that, it relied on the joint action of the participants involved for a possible transformation of that reality in which they found themselves. The approach of the data in this research is of a qualiquantitative nature, since an objectively quantified data survey and an attempt to interpret them were made; at the same time, proposals for intervention activities were made that favored the subjects involved a reflection in the act of reading and writing inside and outside the classroom. The results obtained by the application of the intervention proposal, in which the resource of intertextuality was considered as an object of activities in the practices of reading and textual production, were satisfactory and encouraging, since some students who had immense difficulty in the practices of reading and writing started to have less difficulty in relating, understanding, interpreting and producing texts. This work provided an enriching experience and showed that, with the conscious use of intertextuality in the classroom, it is possible to contribute to the formation of good readers and good writers.