Reading And Comprehension

one intented to ascertain and exploit the potential of the short story in the pedagogy of reading. Bearing in mind the specificities of the language lessons (native or foreign language: Spanish), one proceeded to a reflection on reading, reading comprehension and reading competence. The choice fell on the short story since, given its brevity, it enables the guided reading of complete works, as well as it provides cultural references and promotes the pleasure of reading. After a brief theoretical

Information science and human cognition: an information processing approach Abstract This article presents the possibilities of relationship between information science and human cognition. In this regard, discusses research results on information processing within the cognitive psychology field. Such studies are concerned with the performance of individuals in reading skills, knowledge acquisition and transforming information onto knowledge. It focus on studies about human…

alfabetização. Text Coherence: A Study with Youths and Adults Abstract Coherence is a linguistic phenomenon responsible for meaning construction which assures the understanding of a text. Investigations led by cognitive psychology, have invested efforts on the analysis of coherence from the perspective of those who receive the text. This study examined if the establishment of textual coherence is related to the acquisition of reading and writing amidst youths and adults, in…

Viviane Gomes. Reading strategies the way to understanding text. Monograph presented as a required assignment for the conclusion of the Languages Course. Faculdades Integradas do Vale do Ivaí – UNIVALE – Paraná 2012. ABSTRACT This monograph presents issues relevant for the understanding of the reading process. Reading is not only decode linguistic symbols, but rather interpret and understand the meaning of the text, therefore stress the importance of reading in their different…

classe. O plano de uma aula de 50 minutos direcionava-se a 37 alunos da 8a série (14 anos de idade). Os objetivos eram praticar “listening” e “reading comprehension”, utilizando um tape com um texto sobre a vida dos coalas e o mesmo texto escrito (proveniente do livro didático dos alunos). As habilidades praticadas seriam “prediction”, “listening comprehension”, “scanning”, “speaking” e “writing”. Os alunos deveriam ouvir o tape e, simultaneamente, preencher as lacunas de uma…

Evaluation of youngsters’ and adults’ writing The objective of the present work was to analyze the spelling in dictation activities and rewriting of a folklore tale. The participants were 57 students from the program of Education of Young and Adults (EJA) from a city located in the interior of Sao Paulo state – Brazil, being 27 (47.37%) in the 3rd grade of primary school and 30 (52.63%) in the 4th grade. The analysis of the results was possible through the categorization and comparative…

Mídia e jornalismo como formas de conhecimento: uma metodologia para leitura crítica das narrativas jornalísticas audiovisuais Media and journalism as forms of knowledge: a methodology for critical reading of the journalistic audiovisual narratives B e at r i z B e c k e r * Resumo O artigo apresenta uma metodologia para análise das narrativas jornalísticas audiovisuais, um instrumento para leitura crítica de conteúdos e formatos noticiosos que utilizam a linguagem audiovisual e…

complementar ao texto. General Comprehension. A ideia geral de um texto é obtida com o emprego das técnicas anteriores. Selecionando-se criteriosamente algumas palavras, termos e expressões no texto, poderemos chegar à ideia geral do texto. Por exemplo, vamos ler o trecho abaixo e tentar obter a “general comprehension” deste parágrafo: “Distance education takes place when a teacher and students are separated by physical distance, and technology (i.e., voice, video and data), often in…

language skills (vocabulary, grammar, reading comprehension, writing, oral comprehension and production) are dealt within an integrative manner. All the courseware was designed to meet the interests and needs of students in the technical area. The exercises were formulated so as to facilitate and enhance learning and often relate to communicative situations of everyday life, such as reading textbooks, writing personal and business e-mails and reading journalistic and technical…

Cibercultura. Práticas de leitura. Práticas de escrita. NEW READING AND WRITING PRACTICES: LITERACY IN THE CYBERCULTURE ABSTRACT: In the context of two different cultures – print culture and electronic culture, or cyberculture –, this article seeks a clearer comprehension of literacy opposing typographic and digital technologies of reading and writing. Through the differences regarding the writing space and the mechanisms of producing, reproducing and diffusing ideas, it argues that…