Aulas de português no Facebook : unidade básica e multimodalidade

Abstract

The use of reasoning allowed humanity to create several technologies, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in turn, through the internet and its tools, enable the acquisition of new knowledge, there is currently a great concern on the part of researchers in education and the growing need to incorporate ICTs into school practices for teaching writing and reading with the aim of multi-literacy for students in basic education. Developed in 2004 by Harvard university students, Facebook emerged with the objective of connecting students who had the profile of university students, so from 2006 this means of communication became popular, starting to be used by people with different profiles and goals. Alternative teaching platforms have never been needed as much as today, when humanity is experiencing the SARS-COV-2 pandemic, making it impossible for thousands of students to go to school, making Facebook an even stronger means of connecting these students. students to teaching, however, Facebook has been used as a tool for teaching even before the emergence of the Covid 19 virus. multimodal as video, image, audio. The present work is a field research (digital), qualitative and interpretive, for its consolidation were selected and analyzed videos of free access available on Facebook, being also carried out a bibliographic research for basement and discussion of the obtained data. From the analyzes carried out, it was possible to show that Facebook fits as a multimodal tool, to the detriment of the use of videos and memes inserted in the classes to explain the contents, the authors argue that the Portuguese classes analyzed fit the concept of multimodality , which can be used effectively for teaching.