Literacies in the Classroom

• Main Authors: Arisberto Gomes de Souza, Maria do Socorro Oliveira
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Estadual de Londrina 2020-04-01
• Series: Signum: Estudos da Linguagem
• Subjects: domains of social life; uses of writing; teaching-learning
• Online Access: http://www.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/signum/article/view/40894/28895

Our goal in this article is to reflect on writing uses developed from the work with textual genres in Portuguese classes and its relations with the multiplicity of literacies. Thus, based on Barton and Hamilton (2000), Bazerman (2011), Gee (1990), Hamilton (2000), Kleiman (1995a, 1995b, 2007, 2010a, 2010b), Marcuschi (2008), Oliveira (2010), Street (1984, 2003, 2014), we contextualize the concepts of literacies and domains of social life, as well as others linked to these and essential for our discussions. Data generation occurred through interviews and observations in secondary school classes in Brazil in 2016. As a result, our reflections contribute to the understanding that the students’ writing practices that occur in school space prioritize just a few categories of social domains. Our findings still show that the teaching of writing in school may be poorly integrated into the reality of the community that surrounds it.