Textual genders and teaching books: a case study on distance education (DE)

Abstract

This article presents the interest in analyzing the predominance of the multimodal textual genre through the printed didactic material produced for courses of Letters and Pedagogy in Distance Education (EAD), specifically for Portuguese language subjects. As part of a Scientific Initiation project, this research had the general objective of making students / respondents produce educational instructional material. Specifically, the objective was for students to insert multimodal textual genres in the materials to be produced. Therefore, there was a need to follow the following methodology: 1) analyze the use of multimodal textual genres in textbooks and 2) make a survey of their occurrences and the differences in their applications for the textbooks of each course. Here, in this article, I will stick only to this first stage of the project, which is of a methodological nature, namely, to cut and analyze excerpts from textbooks. It was concluded, with this research, that in the didactic materials of Literature there is more focus on issues of textual genres, while the textbooks of Pedagogy focus more on questions of textual interpretation.