The Swedish Bildtelefoni.net is a service that people who use Swedish Sign Language (SSL) through a video phone can call in order to get in touch with people who speak through a telephone, or vice versa. In relayed calls via the Swedish video relay service (FBT), the interlocutors have different access to the visual arena and the auditive space. They are also physically separated from each other. An interpreter, working in a studio, enables the interaction across the different media, and the interpreter is the only person who has direct contact with both users of the service. FBT has been provided in Sweden since 1996, and is administrated by The Swedish Post and Telecom Authority (PTS). The overall aim of the dissertation is to describe, analyse and discuss participants’ interaction and their joint construction of meaning within FBT. The theoretical and methodological frameworks for the dissertation are dialogism and Conversation Analysis (CA). The dissertation is based on twenty-five authentic calls from FBT, recorded during two periods of time: in the years 2009–2010, and in 2013. One stimulated recall is also made with one interpreter, concerning a call from the second collection. The project has been ethically approved by the Swedish Ethical Review Board. The interaction within FBT is dynamic and dependent on different media, modalities, resources, and also related to several conventions specific for the setting. All this influences the interlocutors, their actions as well as the entire activity. This kind of complexity has not previously been studied in the regular service. Analysis of the recordings focuses on the actions and activities of the participants who interact in the FBT, on a moment-to-moment basis. As results of the research, four phenomena are addressed, and presented as papers: I: the organisation of turns; II: the headset as an interactional resource; III: positioning and bimodal mediation with a focus on the interpreter; IV: the co-creation of communicative projects among the interlocutors. A main conclusion of the results is that the interaction is a joint construction of meaning among all of the interlocutors, although, the interpreter has a key function. Further research of interaction within FBT needs to be conducted, since investigations on this institutional interaction are rare despite the fact that this kind of service is widespread all over the world.

Lorsque l’on s’intéresse au dégoût comme forme d’affect, on remarque que son application abonde au niveau des études cinématographiques et des arts visuels. Par contre, peu de chercheurs se sont intéressés à son analyse à travers les médias dont l’institutionnalisation académique est plus récente, comme la bande dessinée, la télésérie et le jeu vidéo. Ce mémoire a pour objectif d’étendre la pratique des études du dégoût comme affect sur ces médias, en s’attardant sur l’analyse de certaines composantes de la franchise transmédiatique The Walking Dead. De plus, comme ce corpus est marqué par une transmédialité qui dépasse les simples récurrences narratives, ce mémoire veut également produire un modèle d’analyse capable de déceler les structures génératives du dégoût qui tendent à migrer ou être partagées entre les médias de la franchise. Ce modèle sera conçu dans un premier temps par l’établissement d’un dialogue entre les études de l’affect appliquées au cinéma et aux arts visuels et les études sur l’intermédialité. La fonctionnalité de ce modèle sera ensuite testée à travers son application sur la bande dessinée, la télésérie et l’un des jeux vidéo de la franchise The Walking Dead. / When we seek for works that focus on disgust as a form of affect, we note that its application abounds in film and visual art studies. However, few researchers dedicated its analysis through media whose academic institutionalization is newer, such as comics, TV series, and video games. This thesis aims to extend the studies of disgust as an affect’s practice on these media, focusing on the analysis of certain components from the transmedia franchise The Walking Dead. Moreover, because this body of media is marked by a transmediality that exceeds simple narrative recurrences, this thesis also wants to produce an analytical model capable of detecting disgust’s generative structures that tend to migrate or be shared between the media of the franchise. This model will be developed initially by the establishment of a dialogue between affect studies applied to cinema and visual arts, and intermedial studies. Then, this model’s functionality will be tested through its application within the comics, the television series and one of the video games of The Walking Dead franchise.

This study compares the novel Svinalängorna by Susanna Alakoski and the film version, based on the theme of exclusion. The study aims to see the potential the film can have in comparison with the book when it comes to representing the theme of exclusion in the teaching of literature as part of the upper secondary subject of Swedish. This has been investigated using coding and analysis of narrative technique. Key scenes have then been set in relation to multimodality. The result shows that exclusion generally seems to be depicted in the same way in the book and the film. At the same time, the products differ in their focus on different aspects of exclusion. The aspect of poverty, for example, is more prominent in the book, while social problems are more prominent in the film. The fact that the film is multimodal was found to reinforce the exclusion, and the result shows that the film is probably best suited for use in teaching from the point of view of film as comparison.

Philosophiae Doctor - PhD / This study investigated the semiotic resources used by Vagina Varsity, a campaign by sanitary towel brand Libresse on the social media platform YouTube to construct meanings around the female body. Vagina Varsity is a South African online advertising campaign on YouTube which marketed their sanitary products, whilst educating, as well as breaking the social stigma, around the black female body. In this study, YouTube was utilized as a space in which to analyze online identities and communication. The study was located within the field of linguistic landscape (LL) studies, including the sub-field virtual linguistic landscapes (VLL), later reformulated as virtual semioscapes. The conceptual framework was undergirded by multimodality/multisemioticity and feminist theory. The study used a mixed methods approach to data collection, and used a virtual linguistic ethnography (VLE) framework to collect the data sources, which included YouTube videos, YouTube comments, and emails. A focus group interview was also conducted, where the Vagina Varsity videos were shown to a group of diverse youth at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. The embodied discourses which emerged, as well as the discourse strategies of the commentators, were multimodally analysed. The study found that the Vagina Varsity course makes use of multiple modes, including embodied semiotics such as gestures and stylizations of voice, visual modes such as cartoon figures, as well as the strategic use of sound. In addition, the study found that educational content and marketing strategies are both embedded in this campaign, with the educational content overshadowing the advertising aspect. It is for this reason that the YouTube comments and focus group interview were centered on the program itself and not the advertisement. Furthermore, when looking at the medium this campaign used, one sees that the virtual space allows for the teaching of taboo topics, which would not be allowed in traditional educational domains. The virtual space is not only bridging the knowledge gap in the topic of sex education, it also bridges the gap between different communities, as the YouTube comment section allows for people to interact across regional, national and even cultural boundaries. This study also found that Vagina Varsity not only recontextualized the educational genre, but they have also recontextualized the production and consumption of a topic which would otherwise be considered taboo. In terms of the implications for the study, one finds that the stigma that is attached to this subject is removed from this content. Although one cannot say for certain that this type of education will take over the African traditional initiation ceremonies for girls, for example, it can be used to complement some of the content that traditional counselors and social workers use to teach young African women. The fact that the program is formalized in a curriculum that can be found online opens up possibilities for open dialogue across cultures and nations in terms of feminine hygiene. This study contributes to the field of Linguistic Landscapes studies, with specific focus on virtual linguistic landscapes. The study also illustrates that the affordances of the online space allows for a hybrid edutainment space where people can learn about topics which are considered taboo in the domain of formal education. This study also extends the concept of multimodality, by including notions such as semiotic remediation and resemiotization, as well as immediacy and hypermediacy, as tools of multimodal analysis. This study also contributes to studies on gender and sexuality. / 2022-08-31

A segmentação automática de vídeo em cenas é um problema atual e relevante dado sua aplicação em diversos serviços ligado à área de multimídia. Dentre as diferentes técnicas reportadas pela literatura, as multimodais são consideradas mais promissoras, dado a capacidade de extrair informações de diferentes mídias de maneira potencialmente complementar, possibilitando obter segmentações mais significativas. Ao usar informações de diferentes naturezas, tais técnicas enfrentam dificuldades para modelar e obter uma representação combinada das informações ou com elevado custo ao processar cada fonte de informação individualmente. Encontrar uma combinação adequada de informação que aumente a eficácia da segmentação a um custo computacional relativamente baixo torna-se um desafio. Paralelamente, abordagens baseadas em Aprendizagem Profunda mostraram-se eficazes em uma ampla gama de tarefas, incluindo classificação de imagens e vídeo. Técnicas baseadas em Aprendizagem Profunda, como as Redes Neurais Convolucionais (CNNs), têm alcançado resultados impressionantes em tarefas relacionadas por conseguirem extrair padrões significativos dos dados, incluindo multimodais. Contudo, CNNs não podem aprender adequadamente os relacionamentos entre dados que estão temporalmente distribuídos entre as tomadas de uma mesma cena. Isto pode tornar a rede incapaz de segmentar corretamente cenas cujas características mudam entre tomadas. Por outro lado, Redes Neurais Recorrentes (RNNs) têm sido empregadas com sucesso em processamento textual, pois foram projetadas para analisar sequências de dados de tamanho variável e podem melhor explorar as relações temporais entre as características de tomadas relacionadas, potencialmente aumentando a eficácia da segmentação em cenas. Há uma carência de métodos de segmentação multimodais que explorem Aprendizagem Profunda. Assim, este trabalho de doutorado propõe um método automático de segmentação de vídeo em cenas que modela o problema de segmentação como um problema de classificação. O método conta com um modelo que combina o potencial de extração de padrões das CNNs com o processamento de sequencias das RNNs. O modelo proposto elimina a dificuldade de modelar representações multimodais das diferentes informações de entrada além de permitir instanciar diferentes abordagens para fusão multimodal (antecipada ou tardia). Tal método foi avaliado na tarefa de segmentação em cenas utilizando uma base de vídeos pública, comparando os resultados obtidos com os resultados de técnicas em estado-da-arte usando diferentes abordagens. Os resultados mostram um avanço significativo na eficácia obtida. / Automatic video scene segmentation is a current and relevant problem given its application in various services related to multimedia. Among the different techniques reported in the literature, the multimodal ones are considered more promising, given the ability to extract information from different media in a potentially complementary way, allowing for more significant segmentations. By processing information of different natures, such techniques faces difficulties on modeling and obtaining a combined representation of information and cost problems when processing each source of information individually. Finding a suitable combination of information that increases the effectiveness of segmentation at a relatively low computational cost becomes a challenge. At the same time, approaches based on Deep Learning have proven effective on a wide range of tasks, including classification of images and video. Techniques based on Deep Learning, such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), have achieved impressive results in related tasks by being able to extract significant patterns from data, including multimodal data. However, CNNs can not properly learn the relationships between data temporarily distributed among the shots of the same scene. This can lead the network to become unable to properly segment scenes whose characteristics change among shots. On the other hand, Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) have been successfully employed in textual processing since they are designed to analyze variable-length data sequences and can be developed to better explore the temporal relationships between low-level characteristics of related shots, potentially increasing the effectiveness of scene segmentation. There is a lack of multimodal segmentation methods exploring Deep Learning. Thus, this thesis proposes an automatic method for video scene segmentation that models the problem of segmentation as a classification problem. The method relies on a model developed to combine the potential for extracting patterns from CNNs with the potential for sequence processing of the RNNs. The proposed model, different from related works, eliminates the difficulty of modeling multimodal representations of the different input information, besides allowing to instantiate different approaches for multimodal (early or late) fusion. This method was evaluated in the scene segmentation task using a public video database, comparing the results obtained with the results of state-of-the-art techniques using different approaches. The results show a significant advance in the efficiency obtained.

International and local guidelines for designing distance education materials advise designers to use feedback from students in the redesign of their materials. This study is a response to the researcher’s failed attempt to elicit critical feedback from some of her students. It therefore sets out to devise a framework for a critical pedagogic analysis of distance learning materials designed for South African teacher education programmes. It draws on theorisations of pedagogy, principally from the work of the sociologist of education Basil Bernstein and the applied linguist Suresh Canagarajah, theorisations of mediation, originating in the work of Lev Vygotsky, and theorisations of subjectivity. It also draws on international and local conceptualisations of a knowledge base for teacher education. In the analysis of the selection and organisation of knowledge on the page, the study draws on Halliday’s systemic functional linguistics and the field of social semiotics to uncover the positions constructed for readers as students and as teachers in each multimodal design. A pedagogic analysis of distance education materials for pre-service or in-service teachers responds to a series of questions: What elements of a knowledge base for teacher education do designers foreground and background? What is the orientation of the materials to the relationship between knowledge and practice? How is knowledge mediated through in-text activities, pedagogic episodes and scaffolded readings? What roles do linguistic and visual design choices play in the mediation of knowledge? A critical pedagogic analysis interrogates the subject positions that the multimodal designs constitute for ideal readers as students and as teachers. In the study, all of these questions frame a detailed analysis of three sets of materials designed for South African teacher education programmes and, finally, a critical reflection on materials for which the researcher was the principal designer. The study concludes that a critical pedagogic analysis affords designers and evaluators the critical distance needed for evaluating the mediation of knowledge(s) and the constitution of readers’ subjectivities in teacher education materials. As an alternative (or in some circumstances, as an addition) to reader feedback it has the potential to inform redesigning for the original local context(s) of use or reversioning for use in broader regional or global contexts.

Cette recherche s’appuie sur un corpus de données vidéo d’une dizaine d’heures, filmées dans un dojo d’aïkido à Tokyo. L’aïkido est une pratique martiale qui exclut toute notion de compétition. Les partenaires organisent leur pratique en s’orientant vers l’accomplissement de gestes spécifiquement attendus pour chacun des deux rôles disponibles tori [défenseur] et uke [attaquant]. Dans une perspective ethnométhodologique, l’enjeu de cette recherche est d’examiner la relation mutuellement constitutive des ressources dont les membres disposent sous forme de savoir faire corporel et la coordination d’actions situées. Il s’agit également de tester les outils développés par l’analyse conversationnelle pour décrire des interactions dans lesquelles les ressources verbales ne pas mobilisées. Je décris les spécificités de l’organisation séquentielle d’une interaction dont le but est l’accomplissement d’une figure, à partir de gestes. J’observe en particulier comment les pratiquants peuvent identifier sur le corps de leur partenaire le moment pertinent pour apporter leur contribution à la figure. Ce phénomène intervient tant dans l’interaction entre membres que dans l’interaction entre membre et novice. L’identification séquentiellement organisée du contour des gestes est ainsi une ressource qui intervient à la fois dans la coordination des corps en mouvement et dans la transmission d’un savoir faire, laissant entrevoir que la limite entre pratique et transmission du savoir faire se dissout dans le processus de maintien de l’intersubjectivité. / This research draws on video recordings filmed in an aikido dojo in Tokyo, Japan. I propose a description of the organization of interaction between the two available roles, tori and uke, which correspond to defender and attacker. I show that this kind of interaction documents a sequentiality drawing on gestures and normative expectancies. The core of this sequentiality is the ability of members to anticipate the sequel of a gesture from the visual or tactile perception of its beginning. This ability allows them to select themselves to accomplish a next relevant action. The in situ identification of gesture is a resource for showing beginners how to relevantly contribute to the activity as well. Embodied sequentiality appears then as a procedural resource to produce and maintain intersubjectivity even between a member and a beginner.

O objetivo desta dissertação é analisar o processo de visualidade, quando da leitura de textos multimodais publicados em jornais brasileiros. A hipótese de nosso trabalho é que, contrário à maneira tradicional de abordar a imagem como documento, isto é, com seu significado estático e inerente a ela, acreditamos que a imagem é uma construção sócio histórica, carregando traços de seu contexto de produção; como tal a leitura e a interpretação dessa imagem serão influenciadas pelo contexto sócio histórico no qual se inserem seus intérpretes/produtores. O trabalho consistiu na contraposição entre análises de imagens jornalísticas e conceitos da Semiótica, Análise de Discurso, Antropologia Visual e Comunicação Visual. / The objective of this dissertation is to analyze visual multimodal texts published in Brazilian newspapers. The hypothesis is that, contrary to the traditional approach to the image as a document with a fixed static and inherent meaning, we believe that the image is a socio historic construction carrying traces of its context of production; as such the reading and interpretation of the image is influenced by the socio-historic context to which its interpreters/producers belong. Our methodology consisted of counterposing the analysis of journalistic images and concepts from Semiotics, Discourse Analysis, Visual Anthropology and Visual Communications.

O mundo passa por constantes transformações e a educação deve acompanhar esta demanda, já que as mudanças refletem direta e indiretamente na maneira de as pessoas agirem e, consequentemente, na forma de aprenderem. Desse modo, é possível dizer que a tecnologia vem afetando a aprendizagem da língua materna. Por esse motivo, apresentamos uma pesquisa que acredita que as práticas de leitura na sala de aula precisam ser revisadas e adaptadas para um novo público, que é, em decorrência da tecnologia, muito dinâmico. A partir de um diagnóstico que considera esses aspectos, este trabalho tem por objetivo analisar e discutir uma nova forma de inserir a leitura de texto literário no contexto educacional atual por meio dos objetos de aprendizagem. Assim, a pesquisa averigua de que modo os objetos de aprendizagens podem significar e ressignificar a compreensão do texto literário no momento pós-leitura. Para tanto, observamos por meio de uma pesquisa qualitativa, com ênfase no estudo de caso, as estratégias utilizadas pelos estudantes para compreender um texto multimodal e, ainda, observamos o impacto dessa leitura no processo de construção de sentido. O levantamento de dados aconteceu com a aplicação de uma Sequência Didática aos alunos do 9º B da EMEF Padre Domingos Zatti, escola municipal localizada na cidade de Campinas. A partir da realização das atividades, por meio de critérios descritos ao longo deste trabalho, são escolhidos três alunos para o estudo de caso. Nesse procedimento metodológico, os estudantes passam por entrevista durante a leitura de O Corvo texto de Edgar Allan Poe inicialmente por meio do suporte físico papel e, em seguida, por meio do suporte físico digital, tela do computador, com utilização de um objeto de aprendizagem. Após as leituras, também respondem a algumas questões propostas pela pesquisadora. Todas as respostas geram dados que são transcritos e analisados. A partir desse material, observamos que o uso dos objetos educacionais em aulas de leitura pode estimular os alunos a uma prática leitora com níveis de compreensão mais produtivo, já que o texto multimodal pressupõe o uso de mais de uma modalidade, facilitando a construção de sentido. No entanto, os resultados nos mostram que a leitura de um texto multimodal por meio da tecnologia só pode otimizar o processo de compreensão se estiver atrelado a um método pedagógico eficaz, que considera a prática situada, ou seja, o aluno e a sua cultura. Assim, é possível concluir que a prática docente com utilização da tecnologia não é melhor do que a prática sem o uso de aparatos tecnológicos da atualidade, apenas diferente. E, por isso, requer uma postura docente diferente, pois os estudantes têm novos gestos de leitura a partir de um texto multimodal. / The world is going through constant changes and education should follow this demand, since the changes reflect directly and indirectly in the way people act and, consequently, the way they learn. Thus, we can say that technology has affected the way of learning of our mother tongue. By this reason, we present a survey that believes that reading practices in the classroom need to be revised and adapted to a new kind of audience, which is a result of technology, and became very dynamic. From a diagnosis that considers these aspects, this paper aims to examine and discuss a new way to insert the literary text reading in the current educational context through the learning objects. Along these lines, the research finds out how the learning objects can mean and give a re-signification of the literary text in the post-reading moment. Therefore, we see through a qualitative research, with an emphasis on the case study, the strategies used by the students to understand a multimodal text and we also observed the impact of reading in the construction of meaning process. Data collection took place with the application of a Didactic Sequence students of the 9th grade B EMEF Padre Domingos Zatti, a community school located in Campinas. From carrying out the activities, by the criteria described in this work, we have chosen three students for the case study. In this methodological procedure, students go through in interview while reading The Raven - from Edgar Allan Poe - initially through physical paper and then through the computer screen, using an object of learning. After the Reading section, the students also respond to some questions posed by the researcher. All responses generate data that is stored and analyzed. From this material, we found that the use of educational materials in reading classes can stimulate students to a reader with more productive and practical levels of understanding, since the multimodal text requires the use of more than one language kind, facilitating the construction of sense. However, the results also revealed that the reading of a multimodal text through technology can optimize the process of understanding if it is linked to an effective teaching method, which considers situated practice, i.e. the student and their culture. In such a way, it concludes that the teaching practice with the use of technology is not better than the practice without using today\'s technological devices, it is just different. And therefore, it requires a different teaching approach because the students have new reading gestures from a multimodal text.

A língua inglesa em contexto brasileiro é usualmente associada à globalização do capitalismo e lembrada como oportunidade de alcançar melhores empregos e salários. Assim, o ensino dessa língua tende a objetivar majoritariamente o atendimento aos ideais de mercado de trabalho. As Orientações Curriculares para o Ensino Médio OCEM (2006), entretanto, baseadas nos princípios teóricos dos Novos Letramentos, sugerem que o ensino de língua inglesa na educação formal seja um meio para o desenvolvimento da cidadania, da consciência social e da criatividade, e indicam a crítica como ferramenta para que o ensino de línguas estrangeiras tenha como focos a inclusão social, a construção de sentidos e a formação do sujeito crítico para uma sociedade em constante transformação. Levando-se em conta as transformações ocorridas na dinâmica da comunicação em tempos atuais, a diversidade local e a possibilidade de interconexão global dos sujeitos da contemporaneidade, é possível supor que o ensino de língua inglesa na educação formal no momento histórico-social atual necessite de mudanças. Seguindo os princípios teóricos dos Multiletramentos Críticos, a crítica é vista como a problematização de discursos cristalizados nos mais variados textos circulantes, em uma prática de leitura tomada como a produção de sentidos por ocasião de interação texto-leitor, sendo texto aqui entendido como as variadas formas de atividade semiótica realizadas em múltiplas modalidades. O objetivo desta pesquisa é a investigação da crítica na formação de professores de língua inglesa, conforme o projeto dos Multiletramentos Críticos e a atualização desse projeto para o contexto brasileiro pelas Orientações Curriculares para o Ensino Médio OCEM (2006). Pesquisou-se, em uma primeira instância, junto a professores em efetivo exercício acerca de suas perspectivas quanto ao ensino da língua inglesa, objetivos e propostas de trabalho. Em uma segunda etapa de colaboração investigou-se, em uma Instituição de Ensino Superior privada na cidade do Rio de Janeiro, a possibilidade de promover um trabalho pedagógico no curso de Letras e de Especialização em Língua Inglesa, com inserção de atividades baseadas nas teorias dos Multiletramentos e nas orientações das OCEM, de modo que o professor em pré-serviço pudesse ver o ensino da língua inglesa no ensino formal como ampliação das condições para a construção da identidade de um aluno híbrido, multicultural, flexível e crítico, e não somente visando ao mercado de trabalho. Os estudos teóricos e a investigação me levam a concluir que para a educação crítica acontecer, deve haver espaço constante nas aulas para os questionamentos, a desconstrução, a análise e avaliação de métodos e procedimentos. Assim, surge a necessidade de que o professor inclua como parte do seu planejamento perguntas práticas quanto à pedagogia utilizada em sala de aula, à construção do currículo, à escolha de material didático e de textos multimodais compartilhados, pois esses questionamentos prévios parecem ser um caminho para alcançar uma educação em língua inglesa que se coadune com o objetivo do ensino formal de auxiliar na formação de um sujeito crítico, capaz de construir e atuar sobre seu próprio conhecimento, entendendo e agenciando seu papel na contemporaneidade. / The English language in the Brazilian context is usually associated with capitalist globalization, and thought of as the opportunity to reach better job positions and salaries. So, the teaching of this language tends to aim mainly at attending job market ideals. The Curriculum Guidelines Towards the Teaching of Foreign Languages for Learners aged between 14-16 OCEM (2006), however, based on the theoretical principles of the New Literacies, suggest that the teaching of English in formal education be a means for the development of citizenship, social conscience and creativity, and indicate the critique as a tool so that the teaching of foreign languages focuses on social inclusion, meaning making and the education of a critical human subject for a society in continuing transformation. Taking into consideration the transformations happened to present times communication dynamics, as well as the local diversity and the possibility of global interconnection among human subjects at contemporaneity, it is possible to suppose that the teaching of English in formal education at the present historical-social moment needs changing. Following the theoretical principles of Critical Multiliteracies, critique is seen as the questioning of crystallized discourses that exist within the variety of texts that circulate, by means of a reading practice taken as meaning production at the time of text-reader interaction, being text understood here as the variety of semiotic activities accomplished in multiple modalities. The objective of this research is to investigate critique in English teacher education, according to The Critical Multiliteracies Project and its adaptation for the Brazilian context found in The Curriculum Guidelines Towards the Teaching of Foreign Languages for Learners aged between 14-16 OCEM (2006). In its first stage, I researched teachers in effective practice about their perspectives concerning the teaching of English, its objectives and pedagogical proposals. In its second stage collaboration I investigated the possibility of inserting a pedagogical work based on the theories of Multiliteracies and on the guidelines of the OCEM, in English Arts Undergraduation course and in a Specialization Course in a private Higher Education Institution in Rio de Janeiro, in such a way that the teacher in pre-service could see an English teaching practice in formal education as an enlargement of conditions for identity construction of a hybrid, multicultural, flexible and critical student, and not only focusing on job market supply. The theoretical studies and the investigation led me to conclude that if the critical education is expected to happen there must constantly be room in classes for discussion, deconstruction, analysis, and assessment of methods and procedures. Thus, there also happens the need that, as a part of his/her planning, the teacher includes practical questions concerning the pedagogy applied, the construction of curriculum, the material chosen, and the multimodal texts shared in class, for these previous questionings seem to be a way to reach an English teaching practice that fits the objective formal education holds of promoting the education of a critical human subject, who is able to build and act upon his/her knowledge, understanding and deciding his/her role in contemporaneity.