Interactional Processes

This research aims to investigate the processes of reading, interpretation and creative writing within the specific space of a public school. The guiding objective is to identify in the textual productions of the participating students how the processes of interaction between reading and writing, creative processes and the production of texts take place in the classroom. It is in this sense that this research is justified, since it recognises the importance of the communicative, educational and social functions that literacy practices can offer students, enabling them to read, interact with reading and writing, and produce texts. The research falls within the interpretivist paradigm and consists of a case study, using non-participant observation and content analysis of the students' productions as research techniques. To this end, a number of Portuguese language classes were observed, with classes corresponding to the 5th year of primary school. This observation, based on the theoretical framework discussed, allowed us to analyse the data we collected in order to investigate how written production was taking place in the classroom and also the role of creativity in this process.