Instant messaging in High School Literature teaching: WhatsApp Messenger

Technological progress has captured students' attention to the extent that they are particularly absorbed by their mobile phones, computers, and some others similar tools. Thus, teachers must take advantage of this situation and consider how hybrid genres such as instant messaging currently influence new generations. What It is sustained in this paper is the potential advantage that the use of instant messaging, through the WhatsApp Messenger application, may have as a pedagogical resource within High School classroom, and more specifically, in 3rd year of ESO literature classes. Genre hybridity is considered to support this hypothesis, despite reticence that several linguists have about such distinction.