RAP AS A TOOL TO HELP READING UNDERSTANDING AND DEVELOPMENT OF CRITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS AMONG NINTH YEAR STUDENTS OF A PUBLIC SCHOOL
Keywords: school reading, reading comprehension, textual analysis, rap music genre, Brazilian musical culture.
Rap, a marginalized musical genre, and much appreciated by teenagers and young people, has gained space on the outskirts of large cities, as it is a discourse of resistance from the financially less wealthy classes and social minorities. Since it is a discourse of dissatisfaction and overcoming, students who come from the periphery tend to identify with the lyrics of Rap. In this way, they find meaning in these texts. This work is justified, therefore, by the need and importance of reading and textual interpretation, not only in the academic or school context, but mainly for the formation of the individual citizen capable of perceiving, understanding and criticizing the world around him. Therefore, the action research presented here intends to provide an experience of didactic intervention in Portuguese Language classes with students of the 9th Year of Elementary School in a public school in Maceió, with the objective of increasing the development of students' reading competence through lyrics of the Rap genre, also known as the manifestation of the sung word, using reading comprehension and textual interpretation activities, such as multiple choice tests, appreciation of video clips, in addition to debates and conversation circles. As for the methodological aspects, quantitative and qualitative questionnaires will also be used, making use of the participant observation process to analyze the data obtained that will prove the effectiveness of the proposed methodology. The theoretical foundation will cover the study of the genre in question, its history, evolution and repercussion in the current scenario of Brazilian musical culture, based on authors such as ANDRADE (2000), LOUREIRO (2016), SOUZA (2011), (BAUMAN, 2001); the cognitive theories of reading and textual comprehension and the practice of text analysis (SILVEIRA, 2015; ANTUNES, 2013).