A contribuição do letramento para a descoberta dos sentidos nas Charges.

Abstract

We know that the charge comprehension most of the time is a challenge for some students and readers because many of them have difficulty to understand the implicit message between the lines. Thus, the goal of this study is to present literacy's contribution to the construction of meaning in cartoons and discuss this genre as an important pedagogical tool for the teaching and learning process in Portuguese classes taking into consideration the students previous knowledge associated with language skills for the sense formations. As theoretical basis, we consider the postulations of Kleiman (2005-2007), Smith (2004-2014), Marcuschi (2008), Koch and Elias (2014), Antunes (2009-2010), Koch (2014-2015), Possenti ( 2013), Romualdo (2000) among others. Regarding to the methodology, it is characterized as a bibliographic research based on books and academic texts as well as qualitative and interpretative character that aims the dialogue between visual and textual elements for the sense formations ruled in Applied Linguistics. As a working proposal, it has been developed an activity in the 3rd grade of high school which introduced the charge as a tool that enables the activation of the students’ linguistic, textual and cognitive knowledge as an important factor to the formation of the critical and reflexive awareness, making them able to interact in various communicative background. Therefore, this work has enabled to show the possible sense effects caused by t the charge use, genre that presents itself also as a didactic-pedagogic resource that enriches the teaching and learning process.