A leitura em sala de aula: uma abordagem multimoldal de textos publicitários.

Abstract

This work shows the results of the research in the reading area realized with the group of 4th final cycle of Fundamental Teaching. The main aim is to present the development of the students' reading in that level, considering the multimodality of the language. Thinking that school should offer basic subsidies to the students in order to able them to read several multimodal texts that are presented in our day-by-day, we intended to work with reading activities emphasizing the relevance of the multimodal resources for the composition of the text sense. As the most of the multimodal texts, which ones we interact, presents a publicity content, we decided to work in this research with the publicity genre. This dissertation is based on the theoretical approaches on multimodality and visual context (Dionísio, 2006, 2005; Walt, Fonseca and Cury, 2000; Kress and van Leeuwen, 1996) and in the literacy conceptions (Soares, 2002, 1998; Barton, 2000; and Barton and Hamilton, 2000). As a result of the investigation, we could find some aspects: I - First of all, the text comprehension is just based on the verbal language, according to the students' tradition with reading practices strictly based on the verbal/writing modality, fact that was gradually overcome in the course of the developed activities; II - Afterwards, the multimodal aspects became mobilized in the composition of the text sense. Thus, most of the results points out the coherence with the multimodality notion, evidencing that this kind of work, in fact, can contribute to helping the students appropriate themselves of a wider ranging and deeply perspective of reading. Finally, we could conclude that the new social literacy practices demand people who are able to read texts constituted of several languages with more proficiency. As a result of this, we think that the pedagogical practices should present teaching propositions which work, not only the verbal modality, but the visual modality in a systematized way.