O ensino de leitura em língua estrangeira com os contos de fada: a inter-relação entre as dimensões sociocultural e linguística do gênero

Abstract

The aim of this research is to investigate the use of the genre Fairy Tale in the teaching of English reading in the context of public schools. The main research questions revolve around the inter-relation between the sociocultural and linguistic dimension in the approach of language teaching in the genre, seeking to avoid both the teaching of unrelated linguistic aspects of discursive practices and the use of genre only as a pretext for teaching lexicon and grammar. In order to meet these goals, we set up a didactical sequence, which was applied in a 9th grade class of a elementary public school in the state of Minas Gerais. To study the notion of the genre, the dialogical perspective of BAKHTIN (1953/2006) was used as a theoretical framework and the reflections of BRONCKART (2003) for the textual narrative sequence. The main theoretical basis for the development of the didactical sequence was the research of the didactical transposition made by the Group of Genebra, in particular SCHNEUWLY AND DOLZ (2004). Additionally it was referred to TURNER (1996), ZILBERMAN (2003), PROPP (1973/2010) and REUTER (2006) to describe the linguistic and sociocultural description of the genre Fairy tale. The results point to the importance of exploring properly the sociocultural dimension of the genre for the development of reading comprehension without neglecting the linguistic and textual aspect, something that proved a major challenge to be faced in the pedagogical practice.