Avaliação de textos produzidos na aula de língua portuguesa: abordagens teóricas, questões didático-metodológicas e suas repercussões

Abstract

Within the context of formative assessment, the practices of the produced texts correction should not be understood as a learning measurement, but mainly as a survey, they should evaluate the student, the teacher, the process, the enunciative practices, the mediation, the school and even the family. However, although this approach on the evaluation is compatible to the socio-historical and cognitive conception of the language, which is in line with the guidelines of the NCP of Portuguese Language, it still seems showing far from the adopted methods by teachers. The overall target of this dissertation is to understand the theoretical approaches that underlie the evaluation methods of elementary school teachers in relation to the textual production. As specific objectives we sought (i) map the textual correction models used by those teachers, in order to provide an overview about the reality of teaching and learning of writing, and (ii) organize a theoretical material that could be able to base the assessment practice not only as a component of the pedagogical act, but also as a symbolic component of the image building that the students have about themselves and their ability to write. This is a qualitative research established by two corpora, organized from the following instruments: semi-structured interviews with seven teachers who teach on the third and fourth cycles of the elementary education in public and/or private schools; and texts written by students and corrected by the same informant teachers; constituting a total of 35 documents, five of each teacher and 3h48min of transcribed recordings. For analysis of the corpora we opted for the interpretative paradigm, allied to evidentiary paradigm, which seeks to look beyond the recurrences, incidental data, unique, data that can help raise hypotheses about an unobservable reality by direct input. Regarding the mapping practices, we observed that, besides those presented in papers that discourse on the subject (Ruiz, 2001; SOARES, 2009) there are others that permeate the school environment, as oral review and compared reading. Regarding to the theoretical approaches, we can see three manifestations: (i) those that are focused on the system, observable when the teacher favors formal aspects and when their markings, even if they seek the discursive aspect, are not enough to make reflections about the language usage, (ii) those that floating between the structuralism and the social interactionism, when the teacher, although he/she uses more interactional practices, he/she still leaves extensive space for formal corrections, (iii) those that are eminently sociointeractionists, on those evaluative brands we can observe respect for the authoring, the text assessment, significant interference and the invitation to reflection. From these practices emerge two dichotomous social roles assumed by the teacher: the reviewer, who has a deep relationship with evaluation practices of measuring, and the reader-reviewer, as we can perceive, beyond methods linked to sociointeractionism and to the formative assessment practices, another unique aspect: the affectivity. To discuss each of these proposed aspects, we built up a bibliographic review that sought incorporating to the theoretical and methodological discussion, questions of a subjective order, that guide to think about the writing not only on its socio-historical and cognitive aspects, but also affective