Uma sequência didática em foco: o gênero resumo acadêmico

Abstract

The research is situated in the field of Applied Linguistics and is based on Sociodiscursive Interactionism, with the general objective of prescribing a didactic sequence (SD) of the academic abstract genre, about the distribution of language skills: capacity for action, discursive capacity and linguistic-discursive capacity. The specific objectives are: 1. to identify which language capacities underlie the activities proposed in the didactic sequence of the academic abstract; 2. to propose complementary activities to the didactic sequence of the academic abstract. From the specific objectives, we seek to answer the following research questions: Which language skills underlie the activities proposed in the didactic sequence of the academic summary genre? Which activities can be proposed to complement the didactic sequence of the academic abstract? To this end, we used the methodology of documentary research, as a type of research focused on the analysis of data from documents and, thus, aims to extract information contained therein for the understanding of a particular phenomenon. The corpus of the research is constituted by the didactic sequence of the academic abstract genre produced by Machado, Lousada and Abreu-Tardelli (2004). As results, we observed that the SD: a) contributes to the development of language skills of those who use it; b) favors the development of learner's autonomy in learning, manipulation, mastery and adequacy of the academic abstract genre to several communicative situations; c) requires an updating/addition of activity proposals for a better learning of the students. Finally, we understand that the aforementioned language abilities are essential categories for the development and analysis of teaching materials.