Letramento digital no ensino fundamental II: estratégias de leitura e escrita com o uso do hipertexto

Abstract

Access to new information and communication technologies, especially the internet, is now a tool that contributes to the development of reading and writing. With the introduction of digital culture as a pedagogical practice, students are led to use the internet as a support for teaching / learning content, which challenges them to read more and more through hypertexts. Therefore, our objective was to analyze the performance of the students of a class of the 9th grade of elementary school regarding reading on screen. For this, it was elaborated a proposal of intervention that directed the development of the abilities of reading and understanding of the hypertext in the digital context. In the methodological field, the work was anchored in a qualitative approach, whose generative principle is structured in an action research. It was justified this work because when you bring to the classroom hypertextual literacy practices, students are guided to build skills and abilities that will be useful for life, as well as for the formation of critical citizens and thus able to correspond to what the modern society expects. As theoretical assumptions, resorting to the works of Levy (1993), Xavier (2002), Coscarelli (2012), Braga (2013), Gomes (2011), among others. To support the reading work, the strategies set forth by Solé (2010) were used. It’s hoped that this practice, too, will not only be limited to teaching Portuguese, but that the work with hypertext will be expanded as a practice to promote digital literacy in the school context. As a result, it’s hoped that work with hypertext can occupy a significant space in students' learning and that allows them to enjoy this written modality without losing freedom in the use of links that lead to differentiated paths. With this, it is recognized that hypertext has played a prominent role in actual society becoming a relevant support for proficient readers in multiple literatures, including digital literacy. The results of the research demonstrate that hypertextual activities developed in the classroom with 9th grade students constituted an excellent contribution to student learning. Therefore, this work can contribute to the school seeing the hypertextual tools as a resource that shows other possibilities of learning and knowledge.