Production of comments by children of school age based on narrative utterances

Abstract

This article emphasizes the importance of utterances creations by children in social situations of verbal exchanges, such as creating comments to post on a website. In this sense, it aims to highlight the importance of writing proposals that enable the formation of the reader and the creator of utterances, whose actions are manifested between real interlocutors who use written language as meaning construction. Based on the problem - "To what extent are children motivated to participate in acts of reading and writing with a social function?" the investigation was developed, in light of the theoretical contribution of Bakhtin's philosophy of language, through dialogic methodology. In the excerpt in this article, children were asked to tell someone a story and then comment on the website from where the story was selected, about it, or about the experience of describing it. With the materialization of the proposal, it was verified through the results that with the elaboration of writing acts through genres of utterance by the children, they could experience authentic situations of verbal exchange, the understanding of the social function of the comment, and the motivation to write it.