Reading an opinion article: collaborative learning in the production of lexical inferences in SL Portuguese

aprendizagem colaborativa na produção de inferências lexicais em Português L2

Abstract

The aim of this article is reading: collaborative learning in the production of lexical inferences in Portuguese L2. The objective is to analyze the reading and reading comprehension activities developed in the classroom. The research is anchored in the principles of the Collaborative Approach based on Sociocultural Theory (Vygotsky, 2001), in studies on reading, reading comprehension and lexical inferences (Marcuschi, 2023) and in the concept of opinion article (Bräkling, 2000). The study is applied and qualitative, with the inductive logic approach method and case study procedure; the techniques used were: bibliographic review, participant observation, questionnaire, semi-structured interview and content analysis. The results show us that the linguistic heterogeneity that characterizes the classroom, not only of the different varieties of Portuguese L2, but also of the different national languages ​​of Bantu structure spoken in Mozambique, at this public university, made the collaborative approach to learning how to make lexical inferences during the reading and reading comprehension process of the text “Speaking in Public” rich and prosperous. We conclude that work of this nature helps to reflect on the teaching and learning of reading in the National Education System of Mozambique.