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.