Training of Portuguese Language teachers in the final years of elementary school: An approach to the multimodal aspects present in the meme genre
Multimodality. Memes. Teacher training.
This research aims to analyze the teacher training process for the use of memes in teaching Portuguese in Elementary School 2 classes. The changes in a contemporary society immersed in new Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and consequently in new literacy practices enable new school practices. Teaching based on the transmission of content and repetition of information is increasingly giving way to contextualized teaching, connected with digital culture, which can expand the possibilities for the emergence of other multimodal genres. Among these genres, memes stand out for their presence in students' daily lives through social networks, for being attractive, interactive and contemporary digital culture. This research is based on studies of the Theory of Multimodal Social Semiotics (TSSM), intertwined with multimodality and the grammar of Visual Design (GDV), (KRESS; VAN LEEUWEN, 1996, 2006). The methodology for the development of this qualitative research is based on the instrumental of the collaborative research approach of Ibiapina (2008, 2016) through which the researcher and teachers of the research field worked together in the construction of data, from interventions in the classroom, study sessions and intervention evaluation and planning sessions. As a result, we found that the teachers' prior knowledge about multimodality and the use of memes in their teaching practice were expanded from our theoretical studies and re-signified when put into practice. We also verified that there was considered an advance in the teaching practices of the participating teachers, taking into account that the multimodal meme genre can be inserted in the teaching practice to work specific contents of the Portuguese language, not seen as a pretext to work on grammatical contents.