LITERARY LITERACY IN DISTANCE EDUCATION: CONVERSATION GROUPS ON AFRICAN LITERATURES OF PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE

This article aims at pointing to the reaches of Distance Education in the democratization of the knowledge in general and, more specifically, in the promotion of the literary reader formation. Reflecting about the tool "forum" and the "Chat groups" on African Literature of Portuguese language, it is sought to evidence that the professors, when work as mediators in the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), can promote the extension and the depth of the students' literary experience, which guarantee to them "the right to literature". The discussion of the theoretical framework aims at supporting the considerations about the range of the new technologies on the promotion of the literary experience in the academic environments, which has been gradually replaced by extra-literary studies that involve the work.