Uno metafórico: a gamificação como proposta para o ensino de metáforas na educação básica

Abstract

The current scenario of Brazilian education demands that teachers redefine their teaching practices to connect with contemporary students, facing the transformationsand changes in behavior resulting from the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). In this context, this work aims to construct an educational productin the form of an Educational Electronic Game (EEG) that allows student engagementin the knowledge construction process through songs to lead them to the recognition of metaphorical expressions and their effects of meaning, aiming to contribute to theteaching and learning process in Portuguese language classes. The starting point was thelow performance of students in literacy reading, a problem exacerbated by the period of remote learning due to the social isolation imposed by Covid-19. We detected as a sequel to the pandemic period, the lack of concentration and focus of students. The classes selected to work with the product were ninth grade of Middle School II. The created game, called Metaphorical Uno, is a gamification of the Uno card game. The theoretical support that underpins the construction of the product is based on: beginning with the study of Cognitive Linguistics to enter the conception of Conceptual Metaphor by Lakoff and Johnson (1980); metaphor from the perspective of grammarians: Cegalla (2005), Lima (2000), Becharra (2009), Castilho (2010), Bagno (2011); an approach to Discourse Genre by Bakthin (2003) highlighting the Song Genre; Active Methodologiesfrom the perspective of Bacich and Moran (2018) discussing the contributions of Neuroscience, teaching through gamification, and the contemporary teacher.