Narrativas visuais: história em quadrinhos como estratégia de aquisição do signwriting - sistema de escrita de língua de sinais

Abstract

Deaf people use Sign Language (LS) for communication and other human activities involving the use of a language. This includes, among other possibilities, the learning of the written modality, whose use enhances the forms of expression and registration of the language, especially in the educational context. Libras is a complete linguistic system of visual-spatial modality and requires a suitable writing system capable of mapping the properties of LS and the challenge of trying to represent linearly its three-dimensionality. Among the specificities of the literacy / literacy process of the Deaf people is the teaching and learning of a system of writing of signs, based on the premise that the constitution of the senses in writing will be based on visual symbolic processes, in which the mediation of Language of Signals assumes centrality, in a different way from the referrals adopted in the oral language writing systems that are based on phoneme-grapheme relations. SignWriting is a writing system suitable for the visual and spatial nature of LS and has been used as an important tool in the process of writing acquisition of deaf children. Given this scenario, this research aims to present a proposal of visual narrative in the genre History in Comics (HQ), in order to introduce the teaching of SignWriting aspects, in a more natural and contextual way. The methodological procedures of the research involve the establishment of the context and communicational situation, presentation of the signal / statement in Pounds, SignWriting compositional elements and sign writing activities. As results, we highlighted the importance of HQ as a pedagogical strategy appropriate to teaching the writing of deaf children and young people, the use of LS in the visual narrative, the selection of iconic signs in the first lessons of SignWriting and the practice activities of the written in SignWriting appropriate to the age group.