Gêneros textuais: como ensiná-los no interior das práticas de leitura e escrita?

Abstract

How can we use genres to teach reading and writing in the classroom? Texts have specific size and support and possible reading purposes, they constitute the so-called sociocomunicative characteristics defined by content, function, style and composition of the material to be read. It is the sum of those features that define different genres. However, exploring only the characteristics of each text contributes very little to the development of reading and writing skills of certain genres by our students. It is necessary to discuss why and for whom a person writes a text, within a certain communicative context. That’s the difference between treating genres as content itself and teaching them inside reading and writing practices.