As multimodalidades no livro didático como possibilidades de uma educação linguística de crianças surdas
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2025-09-05
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Garcia, Renata Monteiro de Almeida Zani
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Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
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Teaching materials are important allies in promoting linguistic education practices that understand deaf children as subjects of a social, historical, and cultural construction, for whom Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) is their way of perceiving, being, and interacting in the world. This dissertation aims to analyze the multimodalities of textbooks as possibilities for linguistic education for deaf children in the early years of elementary school. Based on a group of authors from the fields of Interdisciplinary Applied Linguistics, Deaf Studies in Education, and linguistic education, a path was created that understands language as a social practice, established in the sociocultural relationships between subjects, and textbooks as cultural markers that can combine different semiotic modes to enable the construction of meanings. This is a documentary research with a qualitative approach, spanning the period from 1999 to 2023, whose corpus consists of seven books for teaching Libras and two books for teaching Portuguese as a second language. Four categories were established for the analysis, including the following aspects: i) visual literacy as a social practice in real-world contexts; ii) linguistic aspects, in which both L1 and L2 are present in textbooks; iii) multimodalities present in the combination of semiotic modes; and iv) sociocultural history, given that deaf children are historical, cultural, and social subjects. Data analysis revealed that textbooks present multimodal resources, such as images, sign language, and writing in an integrated manner, enabling the construction of meanings present in social contexts. Furthermore, it was possible to identify, on the one hand, the weaknesses of the materials, such as the lack of accessible videos in Libras that enable children's autonomy; on the other hand, the potential, present when deaf children are represented in their culture, history, and identity and have their language valued by promoting reading and visual communication based on the world in which they live. Textbooks are not the only teaching materials, but they are powerful tools that, by combining different multimodal resources, develop language acquisition, visual literacy practices, and the construction of meaning. Therefore, we hope this dissertation will encourage reflection and debate on how multimodal textbooks can contribute beyond simply combining images and writing to the language education of deaf children.
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Educação de surdos , Multimodalidades , Livro didático