O PAPEL DO TEXTO NA CONSTRUÇÃO DO CONHECIMENTO NA UNIVERSIDADE - UMA REFLEXÃO SOBRE A CULTURA DE SALA DE AULA E O USO DA LINGUAGEM NA CONSTRUÇÃO DO CONHECIMENTO

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to reflect on and to investigate the role of the oral and written texts in the construction of knowledge and in the development of professional competence in the University classroom. For this objective 39 university instructors and 80 students of the Catholic University of Pelotas were surveyed. The subjects answered 20 item questionnaire on the use of oral and written texts (reception and production) in classroom activities. Teachers and students who participated in the study belong to different areas of the Humanities, Biological Sciences and Engineering. The results of the questionnaires are analyzed in a qualitative paradigm and they show that the university classroom is still a place of the monologue, the conversational interactions are seldom used and text production is basically an evaluative activity. The study presents pedagogical suggestions on how texts can be used to make the university classroom a sharing and interactional environment