Letramento Visual Crítico e algumas percepções dos professores de inglês acerca do texto imagético nos livros didáticos
IMAGE; CRITICAL VISUAL LITERACY; TEXTBOOK.
This doctoral dissertation draws on Critical Literacy (LUKE and FREEBODY, 1997; CERVETTI, 2001; MONTE-MÓR, 2007), Multiliteracies (LANKSHEAR, SNYDER and GREEN, 2000; ROJO, 2012), Visual Literacy (BROWETT, 2002; BRAMFORD, 2009), Critical Applied Linguistics (PENNYCOOK, 2010) and sets out to investigate the pedagogical possibilities of working with imagery and the English Language teachers’ acquired perceptions from the usage of the Critical Visual Literacy Framework (CVLF) in their classes. Applied, descriptive and exploratory in its nature, this research departs and is, therefore, conducted anchored in the interpretative paradigm to use qualitative approaches in its two phases. In the first one, the evaluations of ninety teachers regarding the availability and the quality of the images in English textbooks are examined. Likewise, it is investigated the existence of any pedagogical guidelines or extra information about it. The research methodology included an online Google forms questionnaire answered by English teachers. The responses were compiled, separated and divided according to their content for analysis. As for the second phase, four teachers were invited to use the CVLF as a support for a pedagogical activity and write a testimonial reporting their observations regarding the implications of its usage. The results indicated teachers’ interest in more pedagogical resources, information and guidelines capable of assisting them with the imagery textbooks use. In the same direction, English teachers' perceptions regarding CVLF pointed to the overall positive impact observed in their classes when applying it.