A gamificação no ensino de leitura: desafios e contribuições

Abstract

The digital culture has been earning space in the society and lives of individuals, demonstrating the relevance of educational processes to appropriate elements of this universe. In this sense, considering the primordial importance of reading, as well as the difficulties faced by the school to motivate elementary school students to read, this research addresses gamification in educational processes, considering the contributions and challenges that it can offer for reading activities in school. Therefore, we starts from the hypothesis that the gamification presents contributions for the teaching reading, we also believe its usage raises some challenges. In this sense, this research aimed to delineate the contributions and challenges the gamification as a methodology promotes in school reading activities, considering a survey carried out in dissertations and theses defended from 2010 to 2020. In addition, the specific objectives aimed: i) discuss the social relevance of reading and issues related to their school education; ii) point the principles of gamification, analyzing what contributions and challenges of using this methodology in teaching reading according academic research in the last ten years; iii) plan gamified reading activities to compose a research-action. We adopted, as a methodological procedure, the documentary and bibliographic research, developed by means of qualitative approach. The research theoretical framework was based, mainly, on the reading concepts and the textual understanding of Solé (1998) and Antunes (2003), as well as the notions of Alves (2015) e Fardo (2013a) about games and gamification. The results indicate that, although the use of gamification demands the knowledge and the appropriation of the game elements used to gamify, which is challenging for many teachers, applying this methodology in reading activities at school promotes the motivation, interaction and engagement, contributing to improvement of students reading comprehension and, by extension, providing a more efficient teachinglearning process.