O uso dos memes de internet como recurso para o ensino da língua portuguesa

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to conduct an investigation onto the collaboration of memes as a resource for teaching Portuguese language in the classroom, An understanding of the great repercussion that this virtual social communication language has become in recent years. The analysis brings approaches about the emergence of memes, which objective gave rise to this tool, founders, the contemporary internet, and how we can take advantage from this virtual communication tool in the methodology of teaching Portuguese language. As a result, we emphasize the use of memes as a source of creative knowledge that involves different disciplines and leads students to questions cultural and social present in the texts, based on multimodal and multisemiotic language. We conclude by pointing out that Internet memes, in addition to contributing to the dissemination of information in virtual space, provide an opportunity for the formation of opinions and the promotion of debates in the classroom, stimulating, in a creative way, the performance of students in digital public spheres.