Abstract

NEUVALD, Luciane; HARTINGER, Karina de Fátima  and  WOLF, Rosângela Abreu do Prado. The multiple facets of literacy: an introductory reflection. Educ. Teoria Prática [online]. 2025, vol.35, n.69, e46. ISSN 1981-8106.  https://doi.org/10.18675/1981-8106.v35.n.69.s18160.

The low levels of reading and writing mastery in Brazil highlight this issue, making it necessary to address it in all its dimensions. Therefore, this paper reflects on complexity of the literacy process, specifically on social, cultural, cognitive, pedagogical and linguistic perspectives. This is a bibliographical research, with an initial approach that reading and writing are social and cultural practices, which are inserted in an arena of disputes and meanings. This discussion constitutes the first moment of this text. The methodological issue of literacy is discussed, choosing the authors: Paulo Freire, Eglê Franchi and Magda Soares. The complexity of literacy enables a critical view of the discourses that intend to simplify it or address it specifically, since literacy is not only teaching students to clarify codes, but also helping them in the construction of cognitive schemes of the alphabetic system, in understanding the world and the social function of writing, in its multiple linguistic and typological varieties.

Keywords : Teaching approaches; Writing; Reading; Orality.

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