A PRÁTICA DE LEITURA E NAVEGAÇÃO HIPERTEXTUAL EM AMBIENTES
DIGITAIS – UMA PROPOSTA DE MULTILETRAMENTO EM SALA DE AULA A
PARTIR DE HIPERCONTOS E CIBERPOEMAS
Reading; Hypertext; Digital Environment; Interactivity; Multiliteracy;
Multimodality.
The onset of new information technologies has brought about significant changes in the way
we understand reading and how it takes place in digital environments. Therefore, the focus of
this research is on the students’ reading and browsing skills in digital environments. We are
mainly aimed to methodologically work the reading practice so that students become effective
readers and browsers of digital hypertexts. Regarding the specific aims, they are: (1) to observe,
through diagnoses made, the reading and browsing of students in digital environments; (2) to
work multiliteracies, multimodalities and interactivity in hypertales and cyberpoems from a
didactic intervention; (3) to observe the results obtained from didactic prototypes. We
conducted this research in a class of 8th grade of elementary school of the General Dióscoro
Vale State School, located in the North Zone of Natal. For this purpose, we used the theoretical
framework of a methodology applied to the proposals of Rojo (2012) concerning the didactic
prototypes. This moves us towards a practice of multiliteracies and multimodalities, which are
fruits of problematizations that aim to promote reflections and to renew the teaching practice
of the language teacher. As a theoretical foundation, in a socio-historical perspective, we have
Chartier (1999), Jenkins (2009), Lévy (2009) and Santaella (2013). As a theoretical foundation,
in a linguistic perspective, we have Marcuschi (2009), Xavier (2010), Coscarelli (2006; 2009;
2012), Ribeiro (2009; 2016) and Rojo (2012). The preliminary results highlight the relevance
of multimedia in the construction of the students’ reading, from the overlap of browsing and
reading skills in digital hypertexts.