Media literacy: Insertion of the dialogue between visual and verbal texts in fundamental education

Abstract

Considering the need to expand the traditional literacy vision to a proposal that involves the integration between visual and verbal texts, this study discusses the organization of the layout of a visual composition and its intermodal integration (visual and verbal text) with a view to the education of the reader and the critical writer in the school. As a theoretical framework, we highlight studies by Kress and van Leeuwen (2006), Martin and Rose (2008), Rose and Martin (2012), and Painter et al. (2013). The corpus is formed by web news and argumentative texts of students. The choice is due to the bimodal character of the news, which brings to light the articulation between verbal and non-verbal texts and the meanings constructed by image and word integration. The results show that the organization of the layout of a visual media composition and its intermodal integration contributes to the education of the reader and the critical writer.Keywords: media literacy, visual text/verbal text integration, Systemic- Functional Multimodal Discourse Analysis.