Oralidade na prática: uma possibilidade de multiletramentos por meio de podcasts

Abstract

This study investigated how a didactic sequence of teaching oral skills in Portuguese, through podcasts, contributed to improving students' oral expression. The study was developed with a group of 12 students in the 9th grade of Elementary School II, from a rural community in the city of Pará de Minas, Minas Gerais. These students had little sense of belonging to the community, since few live near the school and the vast majority live on distant farms and ranches; which also leads to few opportunities to create a worldview that extends beyond their homes. Although the oral skills axis is included in the Common National Curricular Base - BNCC for the final years of elementary school, it is still an axis that, according to some authors, is little worked on in schools, being marked by silencing and undervaluing in the school environment in relation to writing. Thus, the work sought to approach oral skills, offering an alternative of activities to fill a gap in Portuguese language classes. The work was carried out based on action research with a qualitative approach and a didactic sequence on the podcast genre. The objective was to use the podcast to develop aspects related to the students' oral skills, such as intonation appropriate to the communicative situation, diction, spontaneity and elocution. The results demonstrated that the production of podcasts on the history of the community and the use of textual genres used for their production promoted significant improvements in the oral expression of the students participating in the research in the discursive, textual, acoustic and even kinesic aspects, which were not initially foreseen. It added a sense of belonging and contributed to the reduction of silencing among students. The research reinforces the need to work with the oral modality related to writing, valuing the use of students' everyday language, according to BNCC guidelines and points to the podcast as an effective instrument to assist in this process.