THE EVALUATION MODALITIES AND THE STAGES OF THE DIDACTIC SEQUENCE: POSSIBLE JOINTS

ABSTRACT

Based on the assumption that evaluation is an integral part of the teaching and learning process and indispensable in the orientation of pedagogical actions which aim at overcoming students’ difficulties, this work carries out an analysis on the possible connections among the evaluation modalities and the stages of the procedure called didactic sequence (DS) (DOLZ, NOVERRAZ, SCHNEUWLY, 2004) and on how this practice may contribute to the development of language capacities. With the objective of analysing such joint, initially, a global overview of the three investigated DS in different contexts is presented, and, next, the activities are classified. In order to identify the language capacities, three versions of a text, written by one of the students from the tertiary level, were examined. The analysis reveal that the work with writing, evaluation tool focused in this study, was carried out, in each of the three DS, in three different moments: initial production, review and rewriting of the first production and final production, which meets our premise that the DS makes it possible for the evaluation modalities to be used and their functions that are: diagnose, control and classify (HAYDT, 2008, FURTOSO, 2008). Regarding the written productions, the analysis show that there was progress concerning the use of the criteria on the language capacities since the comments and feedback made to guide the student in the retrieval of aspects that had already been studied were considered fostering the development of language capacities.

Keywords:
evaluation; didactic sequence; language capacities.