The Instructional Text like a Textual Genre

Authors

  • Adiane Fogali Marinello Universidade de Caxias do Sul, Caxias do Sul, Brasil
  • Odete Maria Benetti Boff Universidade de Caxias do Sul, Caxias do Sul, Brasil
  • Vanilda Salton Köche Universidade de Caxias do Sul, Caxias do Sul, Brasil

Keywords:

instructional text, textual genre, teaching, textual production

Abstract

This article analyses the instructional text as a textual genre and is part of the research called Reading and text production from the textual genre perspective, done at Universidade de Caxias do Sul, Campus Universitário da Região dos Vinhedos. Firstly, some theoretical assumptions about textual genre are presented, then, the instructional text is characterized. After that an instructional text is analyzed and, finally, some activities related to reading and writing of the mentioned genre directed to High School and University students are suggested.