Teaching of argumentation in textbook
Textbook. Teaching argumentation. Literacy. Social practice.
The Common National Curriculum Base (BRASIL, 2017) brings the argument as the seventh general competence for basic education and, it is also contemplated in specific Portuguese language competences for elementary education. This demonstrates the relevance of studies on the teaching of argumentation in Brazilian basic education (such as RIBEIRO, 2009; LIBERALLI, 2013; SOUZA, 2015; OLIVEIRA, 2016; OLIVEIRA, 2017; AQUINO, 2018; AZEVEDO; TINOCO, 2019). In this qualitative-interpretative documentary research, we also contributed to this reflection, but our analytical perspective turns to a didactic collection of Portuguese language approved in the Programa Nacional do Livro Didático [National Textbook Program] (PNLD) for the year 2020. We aim, in general, to analyze the proposal for teaching argumentation in the didactic collection Geração Alpha Língua Portuguesa, in addition to mapping which argumentative genres are deliberated on in this collection and verifying how social practices are articulated to the teaching of argumentation in the "Interaction" section. This research is anchored theoretically and methodologically in the dialogical conception of language (BAKHTIN [1929] 2009), in literacy studies of an ethnographic aspect (KLEIMAN, 1995; TINOCO, 2008), in the interactional perspective of argumentation (GRÁCIO, 2010; PLANTIN, [1996] 2010; SANTOS; AZEVEDO, 2017) and the research form of Applied Linguistics (MOITA LOPES, 1996). The preliminary analysis of the four books in the aforementioned collection shows that there is a proposal for teaching argumentation through activities that are linked to real situations and, based on them, argumentative genres that combine reading, orality, writing, and verbalization are worked on.