Material didático impresso de curso de licenciatura a distância: um olhar para os recursos multimodais

Abstract

The distance learning in Brazil is an increasing reality at the higher education, especially in the licentiate undergraduate courses. In this kind of teaching, the printed teaching material acquires a more relevant space since it may be the most effective source of knowledge, information and interface between the student and the teacher, even being inserted in other possibilities of virtual interaction. In this way, this research consists of the analysis in which the production and circulation process is possible, as the comprehension of the printed teaching material, approaching issues related to the categorization of the printed teaching material as a text genre, as well as the language and the verbal and non-verbal structure. This research aims to investigate the multimodal resources of the printed teaching material in all the curricular components of the first term at the Letras (Modern Arts) Course, distance learning, at the Technology, Science and Education Federal Institute of Paraíba, through the textual organization, the production and the reception conditions of the social developed actions, as a socialcommunicative tool. For this reason, the research took place in two fields of investigation: the textual analysis which observed the PTM under the perspective of the visual semiotics and had the conceptions of van Leeuwen (2005), at Introducing Social Semiotics as theoretical framework, and the syntactic analysis of the multimodal resources based on the metafunctions systematized by the Visual Design Grammar by Kress and van Leeuwen (1996[2006]); the textual production based in the production conditions presented by the Sociodiscursive Interactionism (SDI) by Bronckart (1999[2009], 2006). To understand the PTM as a text genre, the SDI was also used to be especially related to the discussions of Bakhtin (2010 [1895-1975]) on the theme. These data analyses allowed understanding in a clearer possibility the relations between the constitution of the printed teaching material, not only in the verbal aspect but also in the non-verbal view, as well as the production and comprehension conditions of this genre in the teaching/learning process as an instrument which is able to create comprehensive and didactic communicative actions.