As práticas docentes no ensino de língua inglesa na cidade de Maracanaú - em busca dos multiletramentos

Abstract

The main objective of the research was to understand how multiliteracies pedagogy is configured through the designs of meanings that materialize and manifest themselves in multisemiotic texts and digital technologies present (or not) in the pedagogical practices of English language teachers in the city of Maracanaú. In order to achieve the proposed objective, we sought to: Identify the basic assumptions of multiliteracies pedagogy manifested in the pedagogical practices of the participating subjects and examine the challenges and possibilities faced by English teachers when integrating multiliteracies into their pedagogical practices in the educational context of the aforementioned school system. The epistemological basis of this study was based on the methodological principles of multiliteracy as well as on the theoretical postulates present in this theoretical field, such as digital technologies, digital literacies, multisemiotics, and multiculturalism. The qualitative research, operationalized through a descriptive-exploratory approach, was conducted through classroom observations, analysis of planning records, and finally through semi-structured interviews. The data were treated in light of the methodological assumptions of content analysis, integrative literature review, and finally triangulation of methodological and theoretical data. The results found through classroom observations revealed that this pedagogy manifests itself in its most representative postulates in the teaching practices observed, but not in its entirety. The conceptual bases outlined by the research subjects and captured in their discourses reveal diffuse understandings of basic elements of the theoretical field addressed, such as multiliteracy, multimodality, and multiculturalism, for which partially similar concepts were used (interdisciplinarity, sociointeractionism, and diversity of genres and levels of textual complexity).