Os desafios no letramento acadêmico de alunos de Letras de uma faculdade particular de Fortaleza na escrita da introdução no gênero artigo científico como TCC

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the challenges in the academic literacy of students in the Language course of a private college in the city of Fortaleza-CE. The study focuses on the analysis of the introduction sections of scientific articles produced as Final Paper. Parallel to that, we illustrate the analysis with excerpts from an interview applied to the authors of the analyzed papers, in order to understand the students' difficulties regarding writing, observing, above all, their opinions about the writing process, that is, how they understand how to write academically. The results show a mismatch between the expectation of academic writing of which students are part and the product they deliver in return, revealing difficulties in mastering the way of doing research and communicating their findings in the scientific article genre, which exposes the lack of consolidation of academic literacy of students throughout undergraduate studies. The analyses lead to the conclusion that it is necessary to (re)think the formation of the university teacher who plays the role of a supervisor, given its importance for the development of the students' academic writing; as well as the creation of specific disciplines for the explicit teaching of academic literacy throughout the course of the course of Letras. In this way, the students' difficulties with academic writing can be better understood and, consequently, overcome in a process of explicit instruction.