Gênero e-mail: uma proposta de utilização da tecnologia digital nas aulas de língua portuguesa

Abstract

There is a vast amount of criticism relating the teaching of the Portuguese Language (PL) and the methodology used by some teachers nowadays. Taking this into consideration, there appear in the classrooms some media tools to serve as pedagogic resources so that such scenery is reconstructed and the taste for textual production is activated. Students write and read a lot in digital media but almost nothing is produced in the classroom. So, what is one to say when He/she faces this problem? How to insert good PL lessons in the cyberspace, better saying, How to introduce the cyberspace into the PL classes? Based on this, this study aims at presenting the genre E-mail as a proposal of making use of the due digital technology which comes to contribute with text production in PL classes. The methodology to be used is both bibliographical and field research, under a quantitative and qualitative approach, to be executed by means of the application of questionnaires and the surveying of the corpus for data analysis. For the collection of the corpus, the adopted methodological procedure in the research-action will be the development of following classes for the production of E-mails among sixteen students of the 8th degree of a state school in Paraíba. Based on the collected data, the characteristics of these digital writings will be established with the objective of understanding why it is so frequently used. The research is based on the conception of language as a process of interaction and on the studies by Belloni (2005), Coscarelli (2006), Gabriel (2013), Geraldi (2010), Gomes (2010, 2011), Köch & Elias (2012), Lévy (1999), Marcuschi (2008, 2010a; 2010b; 2011), Paiva (2010), Rangel & Freire (2012), Silva (2004; 2011) and Xavier (2011), among others, in what concerns the cyberspace and the cyberculture, digital genres, virtual textual production, the categories of writing, the use of technologies in school and the influence of the media in the PL classes.