PORTUGUESE CLASSES AND INSTAGRAM: INTEGRATING INFORMALITY INTO TRADITIONAL EDUCATION

Abstract

The current technological-informational scenario suggests a necessary change in all areas of society, among them, the educational sphere. Faced with this situation, since students are constantly connected to new technologies, schools could not eliminate the possibility of innovating and modernizing education. From this perspective, this article aims to demonstrate how traditional teaching of the Portuguese language can, together with the media genres, corroborate for a more meaningful and attractive teaching-learning for the student. To this end, it aims to propose the use of some social media posts - especially, from Instagram - as an aid to guide one of the main curricular contents of Portuguese classes: the normative grammar. In addition, the specific purposes are to analyze the reality of PL teaching in Brazil and to describe the function and importance of the media genres in the social field. This work is an exploratory work, which, according to Gil (2010), aims to seek greater knowledge of the chosen theme, providing greater simplification and thus making it as clear as possible. Additionally, a bibliographical research was made about better methodologies for Portuguese language classes, according to Antunes (2003); the idea of media genres, according to Pinheiro (2002); concepts of genres, in the visions of: Bakhtin (1997), Marcuschi (2008) and among others. Besides that, as a methodological process, it was sought to choose publications in Instagram that had deviations from the cult norm, to allow the exposure of normative grammar in a contextualized manner. Thus, it is observed that this work is of great relevance since it promotes the integration of the informality of social media with the traditionalism of the classroom. In conclusion, it is noted that the adoption of new auxiliary methods in teaching is basic to promote a dynamic and reflective teaching and learning.