LETRAMENTO ACADÊMMICO E FAZER CIENTÍFICO: LINGUAGEM EM FOCO

Abstract

This article supports a bibliographical review, of a qualitative nature, in order to investigate academic literacy as a scientific practice. Therefore, the study seeks to i) associate literacy practices with social education in the university environment, ii) understand the difficulties experienced by freshmen in relation to academic literacy practices and iii) problematize academic language as an elitist and excluding estrategy. Thus, it was found that the basic schooling of university entrants has flaws. This gap causes difficulties related to academic literacy practices. Such problems trigger an apparent non-belonging of the newcomer and, consequently, their evasion, since the scientific practice presupposes an identity modulation that crosses language. Thus, it appears that academic language also contributes to homogenization in the composition of an intellectual elite that, by producing knowledge, excludes its stakeholders, other social groups, and their knowledge.