Consideratrions about Research and Discourse Genres for Basic Education

Abstract This paper aims to reflect over the need for insertion of research practices and discourse genres related to scientific research, both in primary and higher education schools. The theoretical framework was mainly the Bakhtinian and Swalesian approaches to discursive genres, in addition to works and documents about the insertion of research and literacy in genres at the different levels of education. The corpus consisted of twenty-eight questionnaires answered by students who are entering the Language and Litterature undergraduate course at a school in the federal education network regarding their experience with reading and producing genres applied to research, as well as the expectations of this pedagogical experience for their vocational training. The results signal a lack of didactics in order to teach academic genres and the need for investments in research from basic education to undergraduation, as a way to create a research culture.