Os gêneros textuais em livros didáticos de língua portuguesa: em busca do segredo da esfinge

Abstract

This work shows a genre concept analysis on Portuguese language textbooks. The corpus of this research are three textbooks of the 6º year from Basic School that are being used by the public schools in Santa Maria. Through this investigation, it was sought to find out: how the genre concept is approached on the teacher s guide in Portuguese language textbooks; how this concept is presented to the teacher, also, which theoretical framework supports reading and textual production. Furthermore, it was sought to analyze if there is coherence between the content of the guide and the proposals of the book. The contribution of this study consisted on offering tools for the teachers to use this concept, to locate themselves in the content presented by textbooks, to dialogue between them, plus, to have the means to choose, conduct and elaborate their own methodologies. Therefore, this work is divided in three chapters. Chapter 1 deals with genre in the teaching context, reconstructing some historical data about Portuguese language teaching, through the 20th century, and how textbooks follow this path. Also presents the notion of genres according to Bakhtin (1992), then, it approaches the notion of genres on official documents, as well as explores the recurrent concepts of genre on current textbooks. Chapter 2 presents the research and its methodological aspects, while chapter 3 closes with the discussion and the contribution of this analysis.