O ensino de Espanhol por meio do protótipo didático digital: uma experiência com os letramentos transmídia
Resumen
The social isolation resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic has driven people to
migrate to the digital environment, consolidating it as a predominant way of life. Social
interactions occur mainly on networks, where people consume and produce content in various
formats, genres, and languages. This phenomenon impacted education significantly, leading
schools and universities to adapt their teaching schedules to the digital landscape and seek
support from New Digital Information and Communication Technologies (NDTICs) and
Digital Learning Objects (DLOs). In the specific context of teaching Spanish as a foreign
language (E/LE), current classes highlight challenges students face, such as under-utilization
of communicative competence in the target language, lack of criticality, and inefficiency in
selecting reliable sources on the web. Given this scenario, it has become essential to devise a
digital and interactive teaching plan that integrates digital discursive genres with the
communicative and linguistic content usual in the Spanish language's multi-semiotic and
multimedia cultural products, adopting transmedia literacy practices. This approach aims to
promote students' ability to use the target language through content management and analysis,
sharing, storing, and, most importantly, producing communicative knowledge. In this context,
this research organized work according to the cycles of action research, in which the
researcher also worked as a teacher of the intermediate Spanish II course at a language
institute of a federal university. Throughout the lessons, the researcher developed a digital
didactic prototype, using sociocultural products adapted to the Spanish language as DLOs, to
expand the communicative and critical skills of the participating students in the target
language. The results indicate that transmedia literacy practices led to significant acquisition
of critical, linguistic, and communicative skills in Spanish classes. It has broadened students'
sociocultural repertoire, as well. The digital prototype seems up-to-date and timely teaching
material for the language institute's pedagogical activities. In addition, the results of this
research study also present relevant ethnographic data for the scientific community and future
studies in the research locus.
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