This text presents a testimony about production of didactic material for Portuguese language that focuses text production and is destined to college students. The author starts pointing the impossibility of each teacher elaborate its own material, what would be ideal, he also enumerates some indispensable points for a good language teaching material: use a mainly linguistic perspective than a normative one; to understand standard language as just one variety of language and a variety that is not anymore only based on literary texts; to point the distinction between oral and written language; to notice the distinction between real standard language and the normative one. From the point of view of the practice of writing, didactic material should always pay more attention to text in spite of phrase, of course without loosing the horizon of strictly technique aspects on which is being written; and always having attention to the subtle distinction between information and opinion, around of what, after all, is articulated great part of what is called today standard language.
Portuguese language teaching; didactic material production; text practice