A teaching unit at the discursive gender report using the tool Google docs to develope multiliteracies at middle school

Abstract

The contemporaneity and the contemporaneous texts made from multiple semiosis put new challenges to literacies. To be literate, nowadays, is to be able to read and produce meanings from a variety of languages. It is the teacher´s responsibility to incorporate new and different practices of text writing in his/her classes, making the student feel stimulated to write. In this regard, the objective of this article is to present a teaching unit whose aim is to help the development of the student´s capacities as texts producer in the multiliteracies perspective. This proposal was applied to the ninth grade at the middle school, it is about writing the gender report using collaborative writing in a virtual environment through the tool Google Docs. This teaching material is part of the thesis that we are developing at the Professional Master degree program in Languages at the West State University of Parana (Universidade Estadual do Paraná - UNIOESTE), Campus of Cascavel and it´s going to be implemented at the second semester in 2018. We used as theoretical framework authors as Bakhtin (2003), Geraldi (1993), Soares (2003; 2004), Rojo (2009; 2012), Ribeiro (2012), Kleiman (1995), Bruns (2006), Lévy (1993), and others. The didactics proposal presented intend to contribute so other teachers feel themselves willing to develop and use in their classes this kind of teaching material at the same theoretical framework we used in this article.