O seminÃrio: um evento de letramento escolar

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2005

RESUMO

This qualitative study investigates the elementary and secondary school student seminar presentation as a recurring speech and literacy event integral to school practices, which coordinates meaning-making activities across multiple media, language modalities, semiotic systems and genres of communication and representation. The investigation is exploratory in nature and limited to a small corpus of seminars produced in a federal public school, and on questionnaires answered by teachers and students of the same institution. These observations and questionnaires provide the basis for the analysis of the event from the point of view of the ethnography of communication, focussing on both the presentation and the context in which it is set. Findings show that student seminars in basic education present differences in purposes, context and the linguistic behavior of its participants when contrasted to the similarly termed phenomena described in Linguistics and Education as university undergraduate and graduate student seminar presentations. This analysis shows that a narrow approach to the study of the school seminar is insufficient due to the complexity of relationships among its components, and points to some aspects in need of further investigation such as the literacy demands of full classroom participation. Through this analysis we also hope to help teachers consider their own practice, by offering some insights into the ways in which they might make use of the seminar as a literacy activity rather than merely an evaluation and a content teaching tool

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multiliteracies evento comunicativo gÃnero linguistica multiletramentos. genre communicative event

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