Alfabetização e letramento: processos indissociáveis para a inserção efetiva do educando na sociedade grafocêntrica

Abstract

This study aims to reflect upon reading instruction and literacy as distinct, but inseparable processes so that the student can learn to read and write, inserting them in a society permeated by reading and writing practices. The complexity of the Brazilian Portuguese alphabetic writing system, composed more of irregularities than regularities, is discussed, and how it should be taught in a contextualized way, in which the text is the unit of work. Furthermore, it discusses the importance of the reading instruction process to happen in a critical way in order to break with the model of culture that has been produced and reproduced in schools by the dominant class, contributing to the debate on the role of reading instruction. In this way, reading instruction teachers, guided by a critical pedagogy, must present a variety of texts from the most varied cultures and languages, also discussing their contexts of production with a view to form a citizen who is increasingly aware and critical about the reality that surrounds him or her, questioning it and transforming it.