Retextualização: do conto mitológico à notícia para a identificação de fatos.

Abstract

Currently, Portuguese language teaching has as a priority the study of typologies and textual genres. Therefore, some didactic materials produced in this area are guided by this study. The narrative textual type, being one of the first which the student has contact with, will be the focus of this research. The narration is present in several textual genres as stories, news, novels, reports, films and even in social networks and it is observed that there is an integration of these genres with varied types of semiosis, such as images and sounds. The Secretary of Education of the city of Rio de Janeiro has as guiding of its work a list which includes the skills and competences to be developed in elementary education in the 2nd segment. Two skills stand out throughout this teaching segment: to locate explicit information in a text and to distinguish a fact from the opinion regarding this fact. The students have presented difficulties in carrying out these activities. Thus, it is important that the student is able to identify facts in a narrative, since their exposure in this textual typology is frequent. Therefore, this research, based on the methodology of action research in the terms of Thiollent (2009), aims to develop in students the ability to retextualize the gender mythological tale to the news genre through the identification of facts. In order to achieve this goal, the proposal was elaborated based on the applications of Marcuschi (2010 [2001]) and Dell'Isola (2008). The work was carried out, first, with a 6th grade class, with students divided into groups; later, the work was repeated in the same class, in the following year, in the 7th grade, but with individual productions. In addition, both interventions applied are characterized by the study of the structure and characteristics of the textual genres tale and news. Then, a few steps were taken so that the retextualization process could happen. The methodological approach was based on the concept of a didactic sequence elaborated by Dolz, Noverraz and Schneuwly (2004) and it consisted of the reading of short stories of Greek Mythology as well as of news texts. From the reading of these tales, students should identify facts and select one that is relevant enough to be turned into news; then they would go to work on it. For a retextualization process to be successful, the information contained in the story should be retained in the produced text (news). The rewriting of the elaborated news was an activity considered to reach a suitable final text. These steps were fundamental for this work, since they collaborated for the construction and fixation of concepts and for the development of textual production competence. The results obtained were satisfactory and through them it was concluded that the process of retextualization was an excellent resource for working with the genres as well as for the appropriation of the outstanding abilities