DEVELOPING WRITING SKILLS THROUGH THE USE OF BLOGS

This paper aims at describing an empirical research carried out in a private school inFortaleza, Brazil, in which the production of a blog was used as an opportunity to teach writing skills inPortuguese, based on the curricular parameters for Brazilian basic education, which postulate that theteaching of Portuguese has to be based on texts. The theoretical background for this study was extractedfrom Schneuwly and Dolz (2004), who developed the idea of the teaching dimensions of genres. In orderto accomplish our research purposes, a group of teachers from a private school in Fortaleza was invited totake part in a set of activities focused on the use of blogs as teaching tools. The present study seeks toprovide a view on the potential of digital writing as a pedagogical tool for the development of discursiveskills, contributing to linguistic analysis practices in the classroom.