COMMAND OF MULTIMODAL TEXTS IN THE TECHNOLOGICAL AGE FOR THE FORMATION OF CRITICAL SUBJECTS

Abstract

The present work aims to discuss the pertinence of inserting multimodal texts in Portuguese classes, and in the same way, propones the discussion about the importance of new linguistic constructions in the promotion of skills and competences for the formation of criticality facing the new kinds communications, so needed by the students in order to develop their development as citizens. It is noticed that contemporary texts are dynamic, using different linguistic signs for their meaning on modern social practices. In addition, it is known that this generation and the ongoing era are characterized by the frequent use of Digital Information and Communication Technologies, and require from it a conscious domain of digital platforms for their active, liberating and transforming role in society. In addition to these facts, the study promotes a reflection about the information diffused on virtual media and its manipulative consequences in the collective thinking. Therefore, it is proposed educational and didactic means of teaching and learning, such as curatorship, and suggesting students the habit of filtering and selecting the information they are daily bombarded by, as well as verifying the authenticity and veracity of digital content to minimize the impacts of Fake News in their everyday life. For this, a bibliographic research was performed on multiliteration and multimodal texts, with renowned experts and documents, by the light of theoretical innovations from Rojo (2012; 2015); Regarding the ideological discourse analysis, Orlandi’s (2009) studies were analyzed; while the reformulation of teaching curricula was taken from the guidelines of High School’s National Curriculum Common Base (2017). From this study, it was concluded that by following the reformulated curricula, the school needs to implement new writing, reading and text analyzing methodologies in consonance with the current scenario, providing students the necessary judgement to understand and act in the modern world.