Development of Logical and Coherent Literary Interpretations

Auteurs

  • Betina von Staa

Mots-clés :

literary interpretation, summary, accounts, genre.

Résumé

In this paper we present a case study in which High School freshmen in Brazil produce literary interpretations. The paper is based upon the theory of genres and registers by Eggins and Martin (1997) and on Bakhtin (1981) and Voloshinov (1973). We demonstrate by means of examples taken from students’ texts that activities such as a debate in which students perceived how different their points of view were and the practice of writing summaries and accounts may have originated texts in which students showed more self-assurance by the end of the semester.

Biographie de l'auteur

Betina von Staa

Betina von Staa holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from PUC-SP. She has worked as a Portuguese and Brazilian Literature Teacher in a private High School in São Paulo. At the moment she is an educational technology consultant for Portal Educacional, offering support about the use of technology at schools.

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Staa, B. von. (2012). Development of Logical and Coherent Literary Interpretations. The ESPecialist, 26(2). Consulté à l’adresse https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/esp/article/view/9289

Numéro

Vol. 26 No 2 (2005)

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Papers

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