Letramento literário no ensino médio: análise das experiências de ensino de literatura no Colégio de Aplicação João XXIII, da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora

Abstract

This study aimed at developing an academic research on the process of growing literary text readers – what,how,when,where and why they read literary texts—with a group of fifty high school students from Colégio de Aplicação João XXIII, from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora. As a way to analyze the experience of teaching literature at school, three Literature teachers were chosen. The questions which were raised in this study refer to the students’ literary background, to the difficulties they face to read this kind of text, to the reasons which lead them to choose the best-sellers instead of the classic literature, to the current relation between the youth and reading itself, to the literary text choices made by the teachers (how it is done and which criteria are used for the selection), to the teachers’ role in the process, among other relevant ones. For the research, it was used the qualitative research method, on its ethnographic branch, and observations, interviews, document analysis and audio records were implemented all through the study. Even thought the process of reading is a goal that goes beyond the school time, it is at the school itself that it is expected the development of strategies and attitudes which help the reader to do better than understanding the text he reads but also increasing his pleasure on reading and his doing the reading as a frequent activity. We understand that the theoretical investigation and the research on literature teaching can help to optimize it deeply.