Uma proposta de trabalho com gêneros mediada por e-mail: um estudo no contexto de ensino de espanhol

Abstract

During the globalization era, each day, the new technological resources allow multiple ways of communication. Consequently, the language in the digital contexts have been the goal of several researches that point out the necessity to comprehend these new manifestations that have been modifying the human interactions (Crystal, 2001; Akehave & Nielsen, 2005). Following this pattern, Soares (2004) contextualizes the literacy in digital contexts in the school, pointing out the potential contribution to this concept, together with literacy to introduce the student by tasks and strategies in digital context. This research analyzes the student's interaction in this environment by the E-mail, analyzing how the communication event takes place in a Spanish course as a second language, in a language school. The students realized tasks of text creation working with two texts genre, recounting and summarizing the reading. In the range of the teaching and learning process of the language this research aims to develop didactics activities with the usage of the genre as a second language, allowing students to improve the text productions and as a result, becoming more fluent in the target language. To analyze the data, the theories which supported this research were based on the didactic sequences proposed by Dolz et al (2004) referring to the organization of methodological strategies; in the concept of genre (Swales, 1990, Irwin, 1997; Christie, 2005, Machado 2007) to the appropriated references to the study of the genres; in the literacy process in the digital contexts (Soares, 2007); in the E-mail language (Crystal, 2001); and the systemic-functional grammar (Halliday, 1994; Eggins, 2002). The data revealed that the execution of the text criation task by the students in the digital context could not only improve the reading but also the discursive resources in the second language