Importância do blog educacional na produção textual dos alunos do ensino fundamental I da rede pública municipal de Campina Grande - PB

Abstract

With the advent of the Internet and the use of digital technologies in contemporary society emerges a new context for the theaching. In this sense, it is considered that teachers need to prepare for the new reality and plan ways to use the new technologies in the classroom. Therefore, the present study aims to investigate what contributions the digital gender Blog can offer to improve the textual production of students in elementary school, in the use of writing as a form of interaction and socialization.This qualitative research and descriptive and exploratory approach consisted in a case study as well as empirical basis of action research, and had as target population students of the 4th year of the Municipal School Lafayete Cavalcante in Campina Grande / PB. For data collection were used some procedures such as: Survey of School Education Programme; Study bimonthly planning regarding the discipline of Portuguese; direct observation, field diary, recording video classes; questionnaires to students, and diagnostic activity to analyze the level of students' writing. As the underlying theoretical contribution to the study, there was use of the theories of Digital Genres presented by Marcuschi (2004), the Curriculum Standards of Portuguese as basic official reference for elementary school (1997), and we stopped on authors addressing the new curriculum guidelines with regard to the integration of digital technologies in the context of the Portuguese language teaching and its implications for reading and writing practices of the students, like Sacristan (2000), Barreto (2002), Moreira (2007 ) Komesu (2004), Braga (2004), Xavier (2004) and Pereira (2005). The conclusion of this study, carried out in close participation among stakeholders, the Blog as digital genre, helps to improve the writer ability of students, motivating them to produce more elaborate form of texts and consistent with what was proposed to them and even as their interest and desire to express themselves in an area of expansion of knowledge and interaction, thus promoting social change in the analyzed learning environment.