In this article, we will begin with some notes on the development of teaching/learning of writing in Portugal, synthesizing different investigative approaches. Assuming the cognitive, personal and social dimensions of the written language, we will argue that the knowledge about the relationship students (subjects) establish with writing, both in school and extra-school contexts, shall underlie the learning and teaching process of writing, on a multifunctional and processual perspective. As far as the methodological device is concerned, we will focus on a workshop about writing with teenagers. The description of the dimensions which make up the complexity of the subjects' relationship with writing led us to the conceptualization of three ideal types of relationship with writing. These consist of different ways of interpreting this pluridimensional and unstable phenomenon that may offer new pedagogical clues as to a teaching of writing that promotes a more favorable relationship with it.
relationship with writing; extra-school writing; workshop about writing
