O papel das imagens na compreensão textual no livro didático de língua portuguesa

Abstract

The association of images with verbal texts constitutes a strategy that has been manifested in all societies since the first manuscripts. And, despite the fact that words and images are harmoniously articulated for the construction and apprehension of meanings in the texts, a change of approach is still necessary for the improvement of didactic-pedagogical practices of reading and comprehension of texts. Regarding the textbook in the context of Portuguese language classes, relating image to text in reading and textual comprehension practices is still a challenge that needs to be overcome, in order to develop in students different knowledge and skills, exploring all the information. contained in the text, including expressed by the images. In this sense, the present work aimed to analyze the role of images in textual understanding in a Portuguese language textbook Buriti Mais Português, 5th grade. The work was developed 4 from the analysis of the works of scholars such as Aguiar (2004), Belmiro (2000), Ota (2009), among others, on which the analyzes about the reading and comprehension activities of texts proposed in the aforementioned book were based. Portuguese language textbook for the 5th year of elementary school. It was found that the approaches, in most of the book, are not used as a resource for understanding, being reduced to the role of mere prop. The results point to the need to resignify the approaches carried out in the practices of text analysis so that the images are explored by the book considering the interrelation between image/writing, taking advantage of the potential of images in the construction of meanings in the text.