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This research aims to discuss the relevance of multimodality (KRESS, 2003, 2010) in the expansion of argumentation (LIBERALI, 2013, 2016) in written multimodal essays on the Language Arts Undergraduate course. This implies investigating the relevance and contribution which the Pedagogy of Multiliteracies (COPE & KALANTZIS, 2009), focusing on the multimodality of texts, can bring to the teaching of foreign languages in an academic context. This discussion emerges from a concern about the gap between language practice in academic contexts and the real use of language in Recent Modernity (MOITA LOPES, 2006, 2013); since it does not disassociate theory and practice, and relates to English as a Foreign Language learning and teaching contexts, our study belongs within the scope of Applied Linguistics (CELANI, 2009; MOITA LOPES, 2006, 2013; RAJAGOPALAN, 2006, 2013; DAMIANOVIC, 2005). It is based on a project which took place at UFPE, on the Language Arts Undergraduate course conducted by the research group LIGUE/CNPq (languages, school and teaching) focused on uniting pedagogical practices and the real needs of current times students. The focal data is based on a project carried out by students of English VI on the Language Arts Undergraduate course exploring the Pedagogy of Multiliteracies, focusing on multimodality. For the data analysis we focus on the argumentative expansion that occurred throughout the three versions of this focal Multimodal Essay, using some of the enunciative, discursive and linguistic aspects of the argumentative language (LIBERALI, 2013) as guiding elements. Results show that there was argumentative expansion in written language due to the use of multimodal support by the students in their texts. Moreover, we believe that the intertwining of argumentation and multimodality studies as well as its use in current English teaching methodologies might help to reduce the gap between the English language classroom and the real linguistic demands of its students.

A expansão argumentativa na escrita de Multimodal Essays na graduação em Letras Língua Inglesa