Genres in language practices at school: curriculum and teacher education

Abstract: The pedagogical work of recontextualizing textual genres for Portuguese Language classes, produced by trainee teachers, in mandatory disciplines of supervised pre-service teacher training in Language Teacher Education Courses, is taken as the object of investigation. We focus on some attempts for innovation concerning writing practices proposed to Elementary School students. This research is situated within the indisciplinary studies of Applied Linguistics and follows a case study design. Taking into account the significant schooling of genres at school, we present a teaching unit as a guiding tool for pedagogic planning, which has been developed from a Systemic-Functional Linguistics approach of genre-based curriculum cycle.