Deficits in orthographic knowledge in children poor at rapid automatized naming (RAN) tasks?

The degree to which orthographic knowledge accounts for the link between Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN) and reading is contested, with mixed results reported. This longitudinal study compared two groups of 10-11 year old children, a low RAN group (N=69) and matched controls (N=74) on various measures of orthographic knowledge. The low RAN group showed a deficit in orthographic knowledge, both at the level of sub-word letter sequences and of whole words, as well as an unexpected strength in orthographic learning. Our findings underline the persistence of RAN-related reading problems, and raise questions about reading strategies in this group.

Investigating readers’ impressions of typographic differentiation using repertory grids

Document designers combine a range of stylistic and structural typographic attributes to articulate and differentiate information for readers. This paper explores how the kind of typographic differentiation used in a document influences readers’ impressions of documents. A preliminary study indicated that three patterns of typographic differentiation (high, moderate and low) might underlie participants’ impressions of magazine design. Subsequently, a set of nine magazine layouts with controlled content was purposefully developed to systematically examine the impact of high, moderate and low patterns of typographic differentiation on participants’ impressions of documents. These documents were used in a repertory grid procedure to investigate the kind of impressions readers articulate in relation to typographic presentation and whether readers are likely to formulate similar or differing impressions from high, moderate, and low patterns of typographic differentiation. The results suggest that typographic differentiation influences a range of rhetorical and experiential judgments. For example, participants described high differentiation documents as the most attention-grabbing and easy to skim-read, while they considered moderate and low differentiation documents to require deeper reading strategies. In addition, participants assumed high differentiation documents to be much more sensationalist than moderate or low differentiation documents, which they generally perceived as authoritative and credible.

A interpretação dos sintagmas nominais com adjetivos atributivos por alunos de inglês instrumental

This present work has as objective to analyze the interpretation of the syntactic and semantic meaning performed by third graders in the nominal groups (NGs) with attributive adjectives in the English language in a text of the final exam in the ESP (English for Specific Purposes) discipline. The corpus is made up of 30 exams of two classes from a third grade institution of the biomedical area, corresponding to the basic and advanced levels of the second term in 2006. The text has 24 NGs of different lexical content, a total of 27 NGs in the whole text summing up to 810 analyzed occurrences. The analysis is carried out at the morphologic, syntactic and semantic levels using as theoretical background the traditional and functional grammars (QUIRK et al, 1985; CELSE-MURCIA et al, 1998; TUCKER, 1998), in their semantic aspects, the Semantics (FRAWLEY, 1992) and the Cognitive Linguistics (TAYLOR, 2002). We concluded that the main difficulties were due to the lack of vocabulary and to the use of mother tongue strategies instead of using the top-down strategies for reading a text in English to compensate this gap. We also observed that even when the vocabulary was known, there were difficulties in establishing the semantic and syntactic relations between modifier and noun head. We suggested improvements for the teaching of reading English texts at the third grade grounded in the obtained results such as a more comprehensive study of the several different morphologic and syntactic structures of the NGs with premodifiers and their semantic consequences, an approach of the morphologic, syntactic and semantic aspects of the NGs and the use of both top-down and bottom-up strategies when reading a NG in the English language

O hipertexto eletrônico de meio ambiente : estratégias de leitura e navegação

The incorporation of computing in class instigate the use of the Internet and websites as a content support in the teaching/leaning process. This kind of practice had challenged the students to read through eletronic hypertextual means. In that way, we re trying to undestand which strategies of reading and navigation the students of the second and third grade of highschool levels are using when reading electronic hypertexts from the www.ambientebrasil.com.br website. The research took place in the Escola Estadual Jerônimo Rosado in Mossoró RN. Our theoretical base was estructured on the digital Technology (electronic hypertext estructure and it s navigation modes), in applied linguistics (act of reading) and in cognition (interaction of the reader with the text and the use of reading strategies in the virtual computing enviroment). The applied methodology was the case analysis which was developed with the reunion of collected data through qualitative reseach questionaries, direct observations and video recording sessions. The research demonstrates that reader s ability in the act of navigating on virtual sites activates his/her reading strategies. Also shows how the semantic architecture of the hyperlinks can interfere directly over the strategies of reading and navigation in specific websites. Our research also intend to demonstrate that the student use his strategies of linear text reading when are not accustomed to use the reading through websites in a regular basis. The investigation concludes observing that the amount of hypertexts per pages and the inappropriate use of the multimedia elements were harmful to the reading fluency

A leitura através do currículo: uma análise do PCN de Língua Portuguesa - a compreensão em foco

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Leitura em língua estrangeira (inglês) para elaboração de resumos documentários

Pós-graduação em Ciência da Informação - FFC

Leitura, literatura infantil e estratégias de leitura no contexto escolar: concepções e práticas

Pós-graduação em Educação - FFC

Leitura e gêneros textuais em livros didáticos de língua inglesa do Ensino Médio

Esta pesquisa, apoiada em uma abordagem de gêneros textuais, teve como objetivo analisar a questão das atividades de compreensão escrita nos livros didáticos de Língua Inglesa do Ensino Médio. Para tanto, buscou verificar se as atividades de leitura procuram trabalhar o gênero de uma maneira comunicativa. Para isso, examinamos os gêneros, os tipos de atividades e os tipos de perguntas de compreensão escrita presentes em dois livros didáticos. Além disso, o presente estudo objetivou investigar em que medida as estratégias de leitura foram trabalhadas, explícita ou implicitamente, como um instrumento que facilita a construção de sentidos dos textos. A metodologia de pesquisa adotada foi a descrição focalizada (Larsen-Freeman e Long, 1991) que buscou selecionar dois livros didáticos constituídos em volume único, publicados em 2004 e trabalhados em escolas particulares na cidade de Belém. Este estudo fundamentou-se nos construtos teóricos sobre gênero textual (Bakhtin [1952-53] 2003; Swales, 1990,1992 e 1998; Marcuschi, 2002, 2003, 2004 e 2005; Ramos, 2004 e outros), sobre o ensino de leitura em língua inglesa (Dias, 2002, 2005; Grabe e Stoller, 2001, 2002; Koda, 2005 e outros) e sobre o livro didático de língua inglesa (Day e Park, 2005; Garinger, 2001; Souza, 1999 e outros). Além disso, retomamos as orientações relacionadas ao ensino de leitura em língua inglesa provenientes dos Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais do Ensino Médio para a Língua Estrangeira (PCNEM-LE, 2000, 2002 e 2004). Os resultados mostraram que os livros didáticos não favorecem as atividades para a construção de sentidos na compreensão escrita de uma forma comunicativa, além de não tomar os gêneros como objetos de ensino. A construção dos sentidos é de fato escamoteada pela tradução (ou cópia) de informações do texto. Os resultados da análise evidenciam, ainda, o uso implícito das estratégias de leitura, sem uma conscientização que favoreça a busca de informação de forma mais crítica e significativa para a aprendizagem do aluno. Esses resultados têm implicações pedagógicas, principalmente porque urge a criação de espaço no cenário educacional brasileiro para que se repense e se reflita sobre o uso do livro didático no contexto de ensino e aprendizagem de Língua Inglesa como língua estrangeira.

Estratégias de leitura na educação química e na formação docente: necessidades e contribuições de um planejamento crítico

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

O ensino das estratégias de compreensão leitora: uma proposta com livros de literatura infantil

Pós-graduação em Educação - FCT

Estratégias de leitura e o ensino do ato de ler

Pós-graduação em Educação - FFC

Estratégias de leitura: uma alternativa para o início da educação literária

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Formação do leitor: projeto educativo e constituição humana

The discussion about reading as a cultural practice is a requirement that points to the school relevance to take itself as a social space of meanings construction and the need to use methodologies that focus on the knowledge construction process and the individual development in considering the teaching dynamics that encourage the strategies discovery for individual and collective work, facilitating that human culture object appropriation . The focus is on the relationships in the classroom and school context mediated by language to written language acquisition, with emphasis on reading. This study intends to contribute for the refl ection on the pedagogical implications derived from the organization of a teaching context, intentionally aimed at the teaching organization of reading strategies in the written language acquisition process. The hypothesis is that the reading strategies contribute to the contexts organization with pedagogical coherent and to the competent reader formation during the education act. The studies are based on Brazilian educators Girotto; SOUZA, 2010) and on North American educators (HAMPTON & Resnick, 2008; OWOCKI, 2003; WEDWICH & Wutz, 2008; HARVEY AND GOUDVINS, 2007), with the action research methodology.

Filme O Jardim Secreto: uma experiência com a leitura das legendas cinematográficas

By analyzing the pedagogical practices in respect of acts of reading in the current context of school education institutions vital, it is clear that they are linked to decipher. But it is believed that for the student to learn to read is necessary dialogue with the text, attribute meaning to writing and comprehension. When thinking about the use of technologies such as film subtitles, it is believed that they allow readers to form since they require a quick read without using the decryption with the attribution of meaning to follow the entire course of the film. This paper aims to present and analyze a film session the project subtitled and dubbed films in public schools and training of the reader, which investigates the contributions of cinematic legends in training readers in elementary school. In this paper we present data on the session of the film The Secret Garden, with students between six and ten years old in a public school in Marilia, SP. The session took place in film school, in a room adapted. When analyzing the results, we observed that reading subtitles contributes to children are not attached to decipher, because we used reading strategies to understand the plot and tried to dialogue with the text. This approach not only contributes reader for reading the screens, but also in fixed supports, for developing specific tactics for the scrolling text which can be applied to the texts on the immobilized support.

Estratégias de leitura: relações entre as concepções do material Linguagens, Códigos e suas tecnologias: língua portuguesa e a prática docente

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)