O letramento digital do docente de língua materna e(m) suas representações sobre práticas de linguagem: que eventos são promovidos?

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the representations of teachers of language about language practices mediated by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) use in the classroom, in order to determine whether such practices are configured as digital literacy events - understood here as a set of social activities reading and writing built with a specific purpose within the digital context. Therefore, this study is part of the project By training together for the continued development of the educational process of reading and writing textual production in Elementary Education, of Observatory Program of Education / CAPES, coordinating by Ana Maria de Mattos Guimarães and Dorotea Frank Kersch, of PPGLA/Unisinos. Considering representations as collective knowledge accumulated from a social interaction between each individual and the environment that surrounds it, both in Social Psychology (MOSCOVICI, 1978) as of Applied Linguistics (BRONCKART, 2006, 2008, 2009), this study a qualitative-interpretive biased ethnographic counted as instruments to collect data to structured interviews and participant observation, in order to determine how teachers perceive the use of ICT to promote their language practices in language. In this vein, through the studies of digital literacies (XAVIER, 2005; BUZATO 2006; BELSHAW, 2011) and digital literacy teacher (SOUZA, 2007; FREITAS, 2009; VALERIO, 2011 GUERRERO, 2013), leaving the conceptions of literacy and social practice (STREET 1984, 2003, 2010; KLEIMAN 1995; SOARES 1998, 2002; BARTON; HAMILTON 1998; ROJO 2009) were set analysis criteria related to mother tongue teaching mediated by ICT, how public policies for the teaching of the Portuguese language from the national curriculum frameworks (BRASIL, 1998, 2002) and state (RIO GRANDE DO SUL, 2009), in addition to working with digital media and genres (MARCUSCHI, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2008). The representations were analyzed according to the analysis procedure Interpretation Act (BULEA, 2010), anchored on the perspective of Sociodiscursive Interactionism (BRONCKART, 2006, 2008, 2009). The results show that for the teachers surveyed, computer literacy and job training with ICT in the classroom is related to have technical and operational skills and resources that ICT are not recurrently used to promote literacy events digital, they are operated as digital media to promote language practices that do not include only the text as the central object of teaching. The representations of the teachers, however, are already heading for a job linked to literacy projects and social practice, and they show concern in promoting language practices that motivate students, from the use of ICT, appropriate to their realities.