Consciência Metassintática e relações lógico-discursivas: uma proposta de intervenção

Abstract

This article is part of a Dissertation , which aimed to discuss about compound sentences and how they are taught, as well as about text production in a metasyntactic approach. The study proposes, through the action-research methodology (TRIPP, 2005), intervention sessions in a group of public school 6th graders in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro. The students carried out activities which aim to help them improve the production of infra-sentential and sentential structures when it comes to clause articulation. Such activities have been prepared from the meta-linguistic and metasyntactic perspective in order to develop student-reflective awareness of the language, its structure and its uses (GOMBERT, 1992,2003; CORREA, 2004). From the analysis of pre- and post-tests applied at the beginning and end of the study, the results showed a relative improvement in the students writing performance with regard to constructions that establish logical-discursive relations of adversity, cause, completion and purpose.