As práticas de letramento em um espaço não escolar na cidade de Serra Talhada

Abstract

This study aims to investigate levels of initial reading instruction and literacy of employees of a private company in the city of Serra Talhada – Pernambuco, seeking to carry out an analysis of these literacy processes in non-school practices. The methodological option is reframed in a case study, because we made the study of a particle case through a qualitative method. With this purpose, the theoretical basis is based on research by Tfouni (1998), Street (2012), Soares (2002; 2004), on the notion of initial reading instruction and literacy, Mendonça and Bunzen (2015), Albuquerque (2007), Xavier (2007), Brasil (2018) and Mendonça and Leal (2007), for literacy in informal environments and in the discourse of education. The research corpus consists of questionnaires answered by company employees, about literacies in the workplace and also school experiences. The hypothesis of our study that non-school environment would not be conducive to the development of workers literacy was corroborated by the results, which indicate, based on responses collected and analyzed from the interviewees, that the investigated environment does not offer subsidies for the development of reading and writing skills, in addition to those necessary for the signing of documents.