A LÍNGUA PORTUGUESA E A CIDADANIA

The construction of a Portuguese teaching program to promote citizenship needs apolitical decision to guide teachers and students towards a new relationship between thelanguage they speak and the language they need to write. Learners are entitled to reading andwriting for meaningful production, and to the command of expressive resources historicallybuilt in the Portuguese language, and that is the task of the Portuguese teacher. The guidelinesfor that goal are provided by the process of acquiring language and grasping reality has to dowith Brazilian lliterature