Linguagem científica na EJA: uma proposta de sequência didática no ensino fundamental: anos finais

Abstract

This research has as its objective to present a proposal of interdisciplinary education based on aspects of the scientific language on EJA “Educação de Jovens e Adultos” (Youth and Adults Education). Through a didactic sequence organized for an interdisciplinary pedagogic intervention, the theme “Vozes na EJA” (Voices on EJA) was developed, on which it was worked contents from the disciplines of Natural Sciences (the senses) and contents of the Portuguese Language (existence report textual genre), in view of the socio-cognitive strategies of textual processing in the acquisition and building of the scientific knowledge. The objects analyzed were oral and written texts, produced by learners of an elementary school – latest years of EJA, evening period of a public school, located on the periphery area of Ponta Grossa – Paraná. The people involved are four learners, aged between 20 and 50 years old. The investigation happens in two moments: the analysis of the text as global in the building of the meaning, by questions that guide the contextual dimension; and the analysis of the text as the place of the development of the meanings related to the scientific concepts that guide the cognitive dimension. This last one helps the comparisons with the activities proposed throughout the process of didactic sequence application. The methodological approach of the research is qualitative, classified as explanatory, the typology of this study is characterized as an action-research, knowing that the results obtained are arising from the didactic sequence applied in the classroom, which generates the object of analyses for this investigation. The results obtained indicate that, when the actions are strategically planned by the teacher, it enables the learners to appropriate the scientific language on the textual production, allowing the building of senses.