Práticas de análise linguística com o auxílio de aplicativos do google: a virtualização do eu - autobiografia na era digital

Abstract

How effective and what is the impact of introducing new digital information and communication technologies in the teaching of the mother tongue and in the practices of linguistic analysis in elementary education? In order to investigate the matter, we organized, with six grade students from city schools in Leopoldina, Minas Gerais, an action research (ENGEL, 2014; THIOLLENT, 2005) aiming to test an autobiographycal production in a digital environment with the help from Google apps. As accessibility of students, until now, was just an assumption built by our observations in the classroom, in the beginning of this research we conducted a poll to verify the level of accessibility to hardware and software by the students and which practices were most common in their daily online routine. The polling aimed to clarify the possibilities of application for the didactic sequence (DOLZ and SCNEUWLY, 2004) developed, which makes use of digital tools and was based, in our case, on three converging perspectives: the teaching of the mother tongue (ANTUNES, 2003; BUNZEN, 2006; MARCUSCHI, 2008; MIRANDA, 2006); new DICT in education (BELLONI, 2012; KENSKI, 2013; LÉVY, 1996; RIVOLTELLA, 2012; WILSON, 2013); and, a study of the written production through textual genres (GUEDES, 2009; MORAN, 2014; ROJO, 2012; 2013) with the help of DICT. The didactic sequence developed followed official guidelines (PCN and CBC-MG) for the teaching of mother tongue of the grade in question. The first step was a presentation of the communication situation, so that the students would become aware of what, how, and why / for whom they would produce, and that they knew that, in this specific case, we would be introducing a new tool of teaching-learning, Google Docs. We also took the chance to introduce new programs which we used in the research as support to the written production. The next step was to carry out the initial production in a digital environment (D.E.), which served as diagnostic assessment and fed us the necessary data for the pedagogic intervention. The largest discrepancies detected in relation to norms required by the genre in question, after being diagnosed through the D.E. and analyzed by the teacher/professor-researcher and the studied group, were dealt with specifically with modules developed to address specific difficulties. With the results obtained from each modules, we noticed that the contact with modal texts, the joint study of the essential structures of the studied genre and the specific activities of linguistic analysis were paramount for the students to improve their autobibliographical texts and overcome the majority of problems present in their first productions. Besides, it was noticed that the students became more and more able to understand the suggestions and the comments which were being made online by the teacher and for such interventions to positively modify their productions. We were able to see as well that, the collaborative teaching-learning process amplified the interest of the student, motivating effective participation in the proposed activities and contributed for the deepening and broadening of their knowledge of the genre which was studied.