THE WRITING PRODUCTION AND THE TEACHER’S WORK IN THE SUPPORT CLASSROOM

ABSTRACT This paper approaches the writing production process of the textual genre “Response” on the teacher’s practice in a Support Classroom for Portuguese Language Learning (SAAPL, in Portuguese) - 6th grade of a regular public school in the South-Central region of Parana State - Brazil.Based upon the concepts discussed by the Bakhtin Circle and the Applied Linguistics contributions in relation to reading and writing production, the work presented here aimed to attend and analyze a teacher’s practice in this context. The data collection took place before and after some theoretical and methodological interventions with the teacher in a collaborative way, providing theoretical support, guided discussions about the processes of reading and writing and their implications for teaching and learning of the language. The results indicate the necessity to provide the SAAPL teacher with theoretical and methodological support in regarding the processes, as well as to supervise and guide his/her practice during the work with the response in this particular context.