Análise da proposta de planejamento de aulas de leitura do material didático do Projovem

Abstract

This research focus on teaching and it aims at analyzing the classroom material used for reading classes in special. This way, we have chosen to look through the classroom material used in ProJovem contrasting the principles of the Communicative Language Teaching (CICUREL, 1991) and the plan for a reading class proposed by the author of the analyzed material. In order to accomplish that, we have questioned the ideas that conceive the steps of those reading lessons (BRAGGIO, 1992); we analyzed the planning of those classes through the expectations of the author of the classroom material, the teacher and the student. We have also considered the conditions to gender production through the gender- related analysis of activities for text comprehension (BRONCKART, 1999). We verified exercises of reading comprehension as a way to collect data and followed the Teacher’s Guide of ProJovem classroom material, whose authors believe to develop reading skills and text comprehension in the sections “Vamos Ler” and “Releitura”. Besides that, we have recorded classes to use as data, as well as questionnaires answered by teachers and students of the ProJovem program. The result of the research shows that the author of the analyzed classroom material is not committed to the growth of critical reading in the readers. The activities are limited to activation of the reader’s prior knowledge about the subject of the text and they do not build meaning. In the activities of text comprehension, we can perceive mistakes in the way gender is built. There is no interaction between linguistic material and the reader’s prior knowledge and, besides that, there is no negotiation for meaning by the subjects involved in the reading activity. Such mistakes make up students and teachers’ expectations about a reading class and hinder productive language teaching and the formation of critical readers. Key- words: reading, classroom material, planning, context for gender production.