O ensino da modalização para alunos do nível fundamental II: uma prática possível

Abstract

In this work, we present research conducted with the aim of drafting a proposal for theoretical application on teaching modality for students in 9th grade of elementary school. It is reported applying didactic proposal in a public school in the urban area of the city of Cascavel, Paraná, in the years 2013 and 2014. We started from the hypothesis that the 9th grade of elementary school students had a low argumentative competence in written production situations, to position themselves in relation to a controversial issue. The didactic proposal based on Cervoni (1989), Koch (2011), Castilho and Castilho (1993) and Neves s (1996) studies was applied, authors who served for the understanding that linguistic elements such as conjunctions, adverbs, adjectives etc., serve to build the arguments in texts. It was considered that the modalization is a semantic-discursive strategy possible in different textual / discursive genres, capable of allowing to the enunciator the record, in his speech, marks its subjectivity or objectivity by choosing linguistic elements that constitute an act of particular speech. The corpus chosen for analysis consists of four texts made by the students from a school s contentious issue that involved the choice of officials students school by an online voting. We expose methodology used in the didactic proposal and analysis of results checked in the online comment genre produced on a group in the social network Facebook. This work enabled realize that teaching the use of modalization for elementary school students is a possible practice associated with the production of online comment genre promotes interaction and possibility of new technologies integration in the learning process. We expect to contribute to the educational process of using modalization, not as an isolated content, but as a phenomenon present in human language, which must be associated with learning to read and write.