Reflexões sobre o conceito de constelação de gêneros e suas implicações para o ensino de línguas

Abstract

In this paper, we support that one constellation is organized by genres that differ from each other in their specific communicative purposes, but that can be clustered for various reasons, such as when accomplishing one task to which a genre chain is necessary (SWALES, 2004). Based on the theoretical perspective pointed out above, we aim to discuss the pedagogical implications of the concept of the constellation of genres, considering mother tongue teaching process. We believe that the comprehension of this phenomenon, by the teachers, can be useful for this teaching process since students’ social discursive competence can be extended in relation to one determined element that motivates the constellation. This is justified because the genres that are joined become distinctive among themselves for the scheme of communicative purposes that they form inside the constellation, in order to serve various social functions inside of the major task based on the one that they joint. Hence, the study of genres chain inside a major scholar task can provide students with a more extended vision of the genres social function, not limiting to the comprehension about the ways society organize its communicative processes in the various kinds of constellation that may exist.