Writing and literacy along the education history in Brazil

Abstract

This article, the result of a doctoral research on the teaching of written production, presents a description about the methodologies and conceptions related to written language appropriacy for the text production along the history of Brazilian education, from the Jesuit period to the present day. This study is justified by the understanding that the different conceptions of language present in the language teaching proposals in the country characterize either an emancipatory or technicist and descontextualized. It will be possible to verify that there is a long way covered in the subject, from the restricted interest of reading, going through the different methods of literacy, up to getting to the studies of literacy, multiliteracies and speech genres quite discussed nowadays.