TY - JOUR AU - Falkenbach, Luciana Idiarte Soares AU - Fontana, Niura Maria PY - 2016/10/14 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Writing for life: materials might make a difference JF - BELT - Brazilian English Language Teaching Journal JA - BELT VL - 7 IS - 1 SE - Article DO - 10.15448/2178-3640.2016.1.23453 UR - https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/belt/article/view/23453 SP - 44-63 AB - <p>This paper aims at identifying in two English textbooks, High Up (2013) and Freeway (2010),&nbsp;suggested by the Programa Nacional do Livro Didático (PNLD), which activities have greater&nbsp;potential to promote writing abilities for communication. To achieve such objective, both&nbsp;books were analyzed and compared taking into consideration the conceptions of language,&nbsp;text genres, teaching sequence, and writing as a process in English as an additional language.&nbsp;The conclusion of this examination shows that there is a distance between the textbooks&nbsp;authors’ intention of dealing with written language, in an interactionist perspective, and the&nbsp;teaching material. Throughout the article, some suggestions were put forward in order to&nbsp;improve the sequences by adjusting them to the theoretical views of the books. The findings&nbsp;reveal that one of the books explored activities that consider aspects of genre, audience, text&nbsp;purpose, and writing as a process.</p> ER -