Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: ROBSON HENRIQUE ANTUNES DE OLIVEIRA

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : ROBSON HENRIQUE ANTUNES DE OLIVEIRA
DATE: 26/06/2025
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Sala de reuniões da ECT
TITLE:

The potential of the pechakucha genre for languages teaching

KEY WORDS:

Pechakucka. Emerging genres. Languages teaching. Multiliteracy.

PAGES: 100
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Lingüística
SUBÁREA: Lingüística Aplicada
SUMMARY:

The transformations shaping the hypermodern communication landscape, marked by shifts from print to digital, static to dynamic, and verbal to multimodal language practices, demand a reconfiguration in languages teaching. These changes call for a critical perspective on meaning-making processes, with particular attention to emerging discursive genres, digital technologies, and multiliteracies as social practices. From this viewpoint, the research explores languages tecahing in a public school located in Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, which offers an elective curricular unit centered on a specific discursive genre – pechakucha – designed for first-year high school students. The data generated during this elective course constitute the thesis corpus, that central aim is to investigate the potential of pechakucha for the languages teaching. To achieve this, this research focus on two specific aims: i) to analyze the layers of meaning in the production of pechakucha made by students; and ii) to map the activated skills to the teaching process with pechakucha. The theoretical framework draws from Bakhtin's dialogic theory of language, sociocultural perspectives on literacy, multiliteracies pedagogy, the sociorhetorical and sociosemiotic discursive genres concept, and the principles of multimodal argumentation. Methodologically, the research aligns with a transdisciplinary orientation in Applied Linguistics, employing a qualitative, intervention-based approach enriched by elements of action research and an ethnographic strand. Data generation relied on multiple instruments, including field notes, audio and video recordings, and questionnaires. The analysis led to two major categories: meanings (verbal and non-verbal) and skills (understanding, producing, analyzing, and disseminating texts). Preliminary findings suggest that pechakucha holds strong pedagogical value for languages teaching, highlighting as multimodal discursive genre, it reflects contemporary communicative realities through a dynamic composition that integrates verbal, no verbal, and design elements across both print and digital formats. This tends to generate more meaningful reading and writing practices, promoting collaborative, creative, and critical meaning-making. By engaging multiple modes and technologies in the service of textual production, pechakucha substantially expands the development of competencies and the activation of essential skills for contemporary social language practices, contributing effectively to a teaching-learning process that is more responsive to the complex demands of today’s world.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 2087054 - GLICIA MARILI AZEVEDO DE MEDEIROS
Interna - 1666189 - JANAINA WEISSHEIMER
Externa ao Programa - 1011609 - ALANA DRIZIÊ GONZATTI DOS SANTOS - UFRNExterna à Instituição - MARIA ZENAIDE VALDIVINO DA SILVA - UERN