Teaching writing and assessing L2 Portuguese textbooks

• Autor(a) principal: Sippel, Juliano
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.26334/2183-9077/rapln10ano2023a16
• topic: ensino de escrita; português L2; avaliação de manuais didáticos; writing instruction; Portuguese L2; textbook evaluation

Although writing is a formal and structured skill that requires explicit and detailed instructions for its proper development (Barbeiro & Pereira, 2007; Grabe & Kaplan, 1996), the literature has shown that its teaching has occupied a marginalized position in relation to the development of other L2 skills (Silva, 1990; Cumming, 2001). Based on this observation and considering that textbooks are fundamental for the development of communicative competencies (Tomlinson & Masuhara, 2018), we intend to present the results of an analysis of L2 Portuguese textbooks regarding the development of writing competence. The selection of textbooks was based on the responses of a survey completed by L2 Portuguese teachers, from which we analysed the most used or recommended textbooks. The results indicate that the textbooks adopt a weak communicative approach and follow a model of teaching writing as a product, which does not provide instructions, planning, or revision. There is also an imbalance in the distribution of language skills and a lack of interconnection between writing and other skills, as well as a lack of methodological guidelines for teachers.