TWITTER IN SCHOOL: REFLECTIONS ON DIGITAL LITERACY

The present study seeks to weave together reflections on the role of the school in the development of activities of digital literacy. We consider, principally, the relation to the relevance of the critical use of social networks, and we chose, in this article, an analysis of Twitter. Twitter is a mixture of social networking and microblogging and, apparently, is made up of bits of several genres like news story, leaflet, advertising, citation, which were modified to suit the needs of communication found in social networking. The research is justified owing to the importance of relating an ascendant genre with the concept of multi-modality and with school practice. The objective of the study is to verify how the school can utilize twitter in activities of developing digital literacy. Dionysius (2011), Bazerman (2007), Street (2014), Soares (2004) and Buzato (2009) are the principal theoretical referents of this study. First, we define literacy and digital literacy so that, secondly, by means of an analysis of tweets collected on February 22, 2014, we can verify what literacies are used in twitter. We verified that this genre offers several possibilities for the development of literacies and teaching of genres integrated to new social demands. The school has a social responsibility with the citizens it is forming and, therefore, it should deliver to everyone tools to act and interact in the real world and therefore critical work with digital literacy is essential.  KEYWORDS: Digital literacy. Teaching. Twitter.

A (Im)Polidez nas Falas dos Estudantes do Ensino Médio: Refletindo Sobre o Gênero Feminino

Neste artigo, objetivamos analisar a (im)polidez das falas dos estudantes sobre o gênero feminino durante uma das aulas de Espanhol como língua estrangeira no 3º ano do Ensino Médio de uma escola pública de Fortaleza-CE. O referencial teórico abrangeu as categorias de análise (im)polidez linguística e gênero feminino por meio dos seguintes autores: Marcuschi (1991); Kerbrat-Orecchione (2006); Goffman (1969); Bown e Levinson (1987); Butler (2003); Barros (2014); Louro (2014); Caldas-Coulthard e van Leeuwen (2004). Em seguida, selecionamos dois momentos de interação oral dos estudantes sobre o gênero feminino por intermédio de um texto do livro didático Síntesis (MARTIN, 2010) e do site Mujer Palabra e analisamos a (im)polidez nas falas dos estudantes, em que percebemos alguns indícios de preconceito contra a mulher.