PLA teaching activity based on literacy as a social practice

This article deals with literacy concepts and reports on an activity carried out with some students from the Portuguese section of the Department of Iberian and Latin American Studies (DEILA / Portuguese). The objective is to meet their needs through a literacy approach since gaps in their literacy training have consequences for their social insertion. However I highlight the notion of literacy according to some authors such as Soares (2009) Garcez (2019) and Justo and Rubio (2013). And in a practical way based on Freitas (et al 2020); Bortolini (2009); Correia (2016); and Kraemer (2012) I present one of the activities falling under the theme: academic life carried out via Facebook the result of which was the preparation of a formal email the social practice learned.