A Comic do teach portuguese language to deaf students

Abstract

This article discusses the report from the extension group in Assessoria e Formação para o ensino de português como segunda língua para surdos realized by Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB). The objective is to describe the possibilities of use of the comic to teach Portuguese language as a second language (L2) in written form for deaf students, based on visual literacy. In this sense, three of the four reading skills proposed by Geraldi (2004) are used as a discursive basis—information seeking, text study, and reading for enjoyment—as well as Brait's (2013) theory of verbo-visuality. These theoretical foundations allowed us to broaden the discussion on the topic, driving us towards the practice of verbo-visual literacy, which highlighted the need for research on the subject. Ultimately, it is evident that the proposed reading strategies provide students with the opportunity to immerse themselves in the text to understand the production of meaning in discourse.