Da tela ao papel: a retextualização como recurso na aquisição da escrita em português como língua adicional

Retextualisation is a mechanism used to produce a new text based on one or more source-texts and involves deploying resources from a given language in order to perform linguistic, textual and discursive operations. The purpose of this article is to analyse and understand operations of retextualisation in the written production of learners of Portuguese as an Additional Language in multilingual contexts in which Spanish is one of the recurring FLs. The hypothesis is that the operations of retextualisation these learners deploy come from the FL they claim to know that is the closest to Portuguese. Data was generated by learners who study Portuguese as an Additional Language in a British university context and results from writing tasks in which students watched parts of a tv miniseries and produced a new text. The results show different operations of retextualisation in the learners’ writing production, among them regularisation, idealisation and transformation. The practical contribution reveals the perception of learners regarding the functioning of language and that their learning occurs through social practices of use of reading and writing.