The co-construction of a letter as a discourse object and teachinglearning object in a mother language class

Abstract

In this work we present the result of an analysis of a mother-language class delivered to students of the 6th grade of fundamental school in a public school at the periphery of the city of Campinas/ SP. In this class, there was a collective construction of a letter to the school principal. As the letter constitutes a new referent, besides a teaching-learning object, it also constituted a discourse object. Besides the studies of interactional sociolinguistics, the analyses are also based on studies on referencing which come from conversation analysis of ethnomethodological inspiration. Key words: teaching of writing, discourse objects, interaction, mother language teaching-learning.