Referencing and teaching: theoretical panorama and suggestions for reading approach

In this article, we will present a theoretical overview about of studies on referencing, regarded as a social-cognitive process of construction of senses, according to the current studies of Text Linguistics as Mondada and Dubois (2003), Koch (2014), Cavalcante (2011), Cavalcante and Santos (2012), among other authors. In order to contribute to Portuguese language teaching, we will suggest two analyses of textual genres often studied in final years of the elementary school: fable and horror tale. Our proposal of analysis includes suggestions of activities that highlight the referential strategies used in these texts, considering them constitutive of the genres in which they occur. We intend to demonstrate, with this approach, that it is possible to articulate recent research in Text Linguistics to the teaching of grammatical and textual-discursive aspects, as proposed by the national curriculum parameters (PCN)