PRÁTICAS DE LEITURA E DE ESCRITA DE LENDAS E MITOS GUARAPUAVANOS: TECENDO FIOS DIALÓGICOS

Abstract

This thesis covers reading and writing practices of legends and myths from Guarapuava, pro-duced by a seventh-grade class students from a public school in the central region of Paraná. The investigation starts from the assumption that reading and writing production of legends and myths helps the student to get to know local culture and history, as well as allows the student to interact with utterances that circulate socially, in order to improve their language usage practices. Based on the theoretical framework of dialogism from the Bakhtin Circle, and on the assumptions of Applied Linguistics in Brazil, regarding to reading and writing and rewriting of texts, it aims at analyzing the constitutive dialogic principles of discursive prac-tices of reading and writing practices of legends and myths carried out by the seventh-grade class students. Methodologically, a qualitative research was developed, based on the princi-ples of action research, which guided the production and implementation of the didactic se-quence “Lendas e mitos de Guarapuava: meu lugar, minha história” in the context of the sev-enth-grade. The results demonstrate that reading and writing practices of legends and myths collaborate to the student in expanding the understanding about the socio-historical-cultural context in which he/she is inserted, as well as developing the use of language, constituting itself as a reader and producer as an evaluative and critical reader as well as a creative pro-ducer.