The meanings of writing in higher education: text production in the discourse of teachers and students from Portuguese and English graduation classrooms

• Autor(a) principal: Queiroz, Maria Eliete de
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Outros Autores: Bessa, José Cezinaldo Rocha, Jales, Adriana Morais
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Alfa (São José do Rio Preto. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/alfa/article/view/7177
• topic: Text genres; Textual production; Higher education; Modern Languages degree course; Teachers and students; Gêneros textuais; Produção textual; Ensino superior; Letras; Professores e alunos

Led by the growing trend of papers in the field of language studies and education which investigate the textual written production of students in Higher Education and the difficulties they present to produce communicatively relevant and successful texts, we aim here to examine the work in Higher Education with the textual genres practiced in written texts. In this sense, particularly the examination will focus on two issues: the purpose of genres produced by students from a Modern Languages degree course and the possible interlocutors of genres produced by them. Data were collected through questionnaires given to students and teachers from a public higher education institution. The paper adopts the conception of language as a process of interaction and reflections on genres of the speech stemming from the Bakhtin Circle’s studies, as well as discussions about the genre and their teaching presented by other scholars. The results show that the teaching of text production in the context of Higher Education classroom environment caters mainly to specificities of the disciplines revealing yet few initiatives that enable authentic situations of communicative interaction.