There is a generally accepted reality among first and second language reading researchers and practitioners that learners who study in a second or foreign language are almost always at a disadvantage, particularly in the area of reading. In light of this learners who register for high school study each year in South Africa are very often under prepared for high school education and many of these learners also have low levels of reading ability. This has an adverse effect on their chances of academic success. In order to meet the reading needs of these learners, educators need to develop effective instructional means for teaching reading comprehension and reading strategy use. It is evident from the volume and quality of research published that the teaching of reading strategies enhances the learners' reading comprehension ability. The purpose of this study was to: • determine what reading strategies Grade 11 ESL learners use; • determine what reading strategies should be taught; • determine how and when reading strategies should be taught in the ESL classroom; • determine what the effect of an implemented reading strategy programme is on the reading comprehension of the Grade 11 ESL learners participating in this study; and • provide guidelines in terms of the composition (i.e. format, outcomes, content, teaching method 1 approach, etc.) of a reading strategy instruction programme. In this study a quasi-experimental pretest - posttest control group design was used. The participants in this study included a total of 60 Grade 11 ESL learners from a high school in the Eastern Cape. Two intact randomly selected classes participated in the study. Both males and females participated in the study and ranged in age from 18 - 22 years. The Reading Performance Test in English: Advanced Level (Roux, 1996) and a Reading Strategy Questionnaire based on the work of Oxford (1990), Pressley and Afflerbach (1995) and Pressley et al. (1995) was used in this study. A t-test was used to determine whether the mean scores of the experimental and control group differed statistically significantly from each other. Cohen's (1977) effect size d was used to determine whether the mean differences were practically significant. The results of the study can be summarized as follows: The results indicated that the learners who followed the reading strategy programme and received strategic reading instruction (experimental group) obtained both statistically and practically significantly higher marks on the reading comprehension test (posttest) than did the learners in the control group. The posttest results indicated that the learners in the experimental group used certain strategies statistically (p<0.05), as well as practically significantly (small to large effect size), more often than the learners in the control group. The reading instruction programme developed in this study focuses on five reading strategies, namely guessing the meaning of words from the context, making inferences, predicting what is to come in a text, identifying the main idea and summarising. The programme presents an overview of the guidelines for a reading strategy instruction programme. It outlines the purpose, target group, content and other aspects, instruction, classroom procedure and assessment concerning a meaningful reading strategy instruction programme. English Second Language teachers may find it worth their while to implement reading strategy training models of a similar nature in order to develop their learners' proficiency in reading comprehension and reading strategy use. / Thesis (Ph.D. (English))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2007

Detta arbete behandlar ämnet läsförståelse ur olika perspektiv. Fokus ligger på hur man kan träna upp en god läsförståelse genom att använda olika lässtrategier. Uppsatsen vänder sig både till ämnet svenska och svenska som andraspråk, därför är vissa avsnitt riktade direkt mot den senare typen av lärare och elever, som detta arbete kan vara behjälpligt för. En stor del av uppsatsen handlar också om lässtrategier, vilka bland annat utgör en del av grunden i de kvalitativa intervjuer, som utförs för att svara på arbetets frågeställningar. Informanterna är två lärare i svenska och svenska som andraspråk, som arbetar på ett mellan – respektive högstadium. I resultatet och diskussionen framkommer att såväl informanterna som forskarna, anser att läsförståelse innebär att man kan avkoda en text och tolka dess innehåll. De menar också att de viktigaste lässtrategierna är att: förutspå handlingen, ställa egna frågor om texten, klargöra otydligheter och sammanfatta texten. Slutsatsen av detta är att det verkar vara dessa lässtrategier man som lärare bör lägga ner tid och engagemang på, att lära ut. Dessutom konstateras det i diskussionen att undervisning i hur man läser olika texter, är ett obligatoriskt inslag i kursplanerna i svenska och svenska som andraspråk. Något som förhoppningsvis, tillsammans med andra faktorer, kan motverka fler låga resultat i kommande PISA-undersökningar.

SOUZA, Letícia Joaquina de Castro Rodrigues Souza e. A inserção do texto literário nas aulas de e/le: diretrizes para o núcleo de línguas estrangeiras da UECE. 2008. 265 f. Dissertação (Mestrado) - Universidade Estadual do Ceará, Curso de Mestrado Acadêmico em Linguística Aplicada, Fortaleza, 2008. / Submitted by anizia almeida (aniziaalmeida80@gmail.com) on 2016-09-22T14:43:50Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2008_dis_ljcrsesouza.pdf: 44932149 bytes, checksum: 411ac5bb40048c1b13b1e86d0a1cc4c9 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-09-27T16:26:29Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2008_dis_ljcrsesouza.pdf: 44932149 bytes, checksum: 411ac5bb40048c1b13b1e86d0a1cc4c9 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-09-27T16:26:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2008_dis_ljcrsesouza.pdf: 44932149 bytes, checksum: 411ac5bb40048c1b13b1e86d0a1cc4c9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / The present study deals with the inclusion of literary texts in the lessons of Spanish as a foreign language within the teaching-learning context of the Núcleo de Línguas Estrangeiras da Universidade Estadual do Ceará (UECE). For a theoretical basis we have resorted to several authors such as Albaladejo (2004), Cosson (2006) and Mendoza (2004), who tackles the use of literary texts in the language classroom as tools for the formation of competent readers, and to the works of Goodman (1990), Kato (1999), Kleiman (2004), among others, about the reading process in general and about reading strategies. By means of questionnaires we tried to detect students’ and teachers’ motivation and beliefs about the reading of literature, teachers’ difficulties in the inclusion of literary texts in the language classroom and students’ difficulties in the reception of those texts in the target language. Another aim of the investigation was to find out whether the Núcleo had any framework for the inclusion of activities with literary texts. The results show that there is no such a framework. As a pedagogic consequence of our findings and with the help of the theoretical contributions of the authors mentioned above, we have elaborated some guidelines which are intended to serve as a foundation for the building of a framework for the didactic treatment of the literary text at the Núcleo de Línguas. The focus of that model should be the development of reading strategies and the raising of aesthetic pleasure. / No presente estudo, exploramos a prática da inclusão de textos literários nas aulas de espanhol como língua estrangeira, dentro do contexto de ensino-aprendizagem do Núcleo de Línguas Estrangeiras da Universidade Estadual do Ceará (UECE). Como base teórica valemo-nos das contribuições de autores como Albaladejo (2004), Cosson (2006) e Mendoza (2004), no que se refere à questão da inclusão de textos literários na sala de aula de língua espanhola como ferramentas para a formação leitora e a Goodman (1990), Kato (1999), Kleiman (2004), dentre outros, para as teorias sobre o processo leitor e sobre o trabalho com as estratégias de leitura. Através de questionários procuramos detectar as motivações e crenças dos alunos e professores sobre a leitura de textos literários, as dificuldades dos docentes em incluir esse tipo de texto em suas aulas e as dificuldades dos alunos na recepção dos textos literários em língua espanhola. Outro objetivo do nosso estudo foi verificar se o Núcleo de Línguas Estrangeiras da UECE possuía um modelo de tratamento didático para a inclusão de atividades com o texto literário. Nossa pesquisa constatou a ausência de tal modelo. Por essa razão, apoiados nas contribuições teóricas que serviram de base para o nosso estudo e na análise dos dados obtidos através do questionário respondido por professores e alunos de língua espanhola do Núcleo de Línguas Estrangeiras, elaboramos algumas diretrizes que poderão servir de alicerce para a construção de um modelo de tratamento didático do texto literário, para o programa de extensão supracitado, centrado no despertar do prazer estético e no desenvolvimento de estratégias de leitura.

Submitted by Maike Costa (maiksebas@gmail.com) on 2017-04-17T13:25:01Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 2436047 bytes, checksum: 01483ce1b55b1fdf3697d113a42125e0 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-04-17T13:25:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 2436047 bytes, checksum: 01483ce1b55b1fdf3697d113a42125e0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-10-21 / In this work, we turn our attention to the teaching of reading in the classroom, specifically, to the final series of Elementary School, since, in the 9th year, students have their skills and reading skills evaluated by national instruments, such as the Proof Brazil, and the state, such as the -Approval of the Paraíba Educational Performance Index (IDEPB) ‖. Such instruments have diagnosed a reader with significant deficiency in reading skills and abilities, in addition to this same observation, in the daily practice of our teaching practice, and this leads us to understand that it is imperative that the school systematically invest in a pedagogical process that not only encourages The taste for reading, but also the student to understand what he reads and, thus, to attribute meanings to the text. With this action research, we aim to enable a better development of the reading competence of the 9th grade elementary school students of a state public school, based on the work with metacognitive reading strategies. For that, we have, as a theoretical contribution, the studies developed by Kleiman (2011, 2013), Solé (1998), Leffa (1996), Antunes (2009), Guedes (2006), among others. The research was developed with a 9th grade class of the public school system, composed of 32 (thirty two) students, however, we only considered for this research 18 (eighteen) students, considering that they were present in all Stages of Pedagogical Intervention. Initially, we applied an Initial Probing evaluation, with questions that required the mastery of the skills that make up the I-Topic of the Portuguese-Language Reference Matrix of the IDEPB for the 9th grade. From the result, we verified that the descriptor that aims to Infer information in a text and what it objectifies to distinguish fact of opinion, presented themselves as being the ones of greater difficulty of understanding on the part of the students, so that a plan was elaborated Of action, aimed at teaching the metacognitive strategies of reading that aimed to contribute to the better development of the skills and reading abilities of these subjects. We consider positive the results obtained, considering that the data indicate a significant advance of the students' reading development, regarding the analyzed descriptors. Therefore, we believe in the contribution of this work, both for the students involved in this process, as well as for teachers who work in the classroom, as it can help and point out a possible way to work with reading strategies and, Consequently, the development of the reading abilities of the subjects involved in the process. / Neste trabalho, voltamos nosso olhar para o ensino da leitura na sala de aula, especificamente, para a série final do Ensino Fundamental, uma vez que, no 9º ano, os alunos têm suas habilidades e competências leitoras avaliadas por instrumentos nacionais, como a Prova Brasil, e estaduais, como o ―Avaliando o Índice de Desempenho Educacional da Paraíba (IDEPB)‖. Tais instrumentos têm diagnosticado um leitor com significativa deficiência nas competências e habilidades leitoras, além dessa mesma constatação, no cotidiano de nossa prática docente, e isso nos leva a entender que é imprescindível que a escola invista, sistematicamente, num processo pedagógico que não apenas incentive o gosto pela leitura, mas também leve o aluno a compreender o que lê e, assim, a atribuir sentidos ao texto. Com esta pesquisa-ação, objetivamos possibilitar um melhor desenvolvimento da competência leitora dos alunos do 9º ano do Ensino Fundamental de uma escola pública estadual, a partir do trabalho com as estratégias metacognitivas de leitura. Para tanto, temos, como aporte teórico, os estudos desenvolvidos por Kleiman (2011, 2013), Solé (1998), Leffa (1996), Antunes (2009), Guedes (2006), entre outros. A pesquisa foi desenvolvida com uma turma de 9° ano da rede pública de ensino, composta por 32 (trinta e dois) alunos, porém, só consideramos para esta pesquisa 18 (dezoito) alunos, tendo em vista que esses estiveram presentes em todas as etapas da Intervenção Pedagógica. Inicialmente, aplicamos uma avaliação de Sondagem Inicial, com questões que demandavam o domínio das habilidades que compõem o Tópico I da Matriz de Referência de Língua Portuguesa do Avaliando IDEPB para o 9º ano. A partir do resultado, verificamos que o descritor que tem como objetivo Inferir informação em um texto e o que objetiva Distinguir fato de opinião, apresentaram-se como sendo os de maior dificuldade de compreensão por parte dos alunos, de maneira que foi elaborado um plano de ação, voltado para o ensino das estratégias metacognitivas da leitura que visava contribuir para o melhor desenvolvimento das competências e habilidades leitoras desses sujeitos. Consideramos positivos os resultados obtidos, tendo em vista que os dados indicam um avanço significativo do desenvolvimento leitor dos discentes, no que tange aos descritores analisados. Sendo assim, acreditamos na contribuição deste trabalho, tanto para os alunos envolvidos neste processo, quanto para os docentes que atuam em sala de aula, na medida em que ele pode auxiliar e apontar um possível caminho para o trabalho com as estratégias de leitura e, consequentemente, o desenvolvimento das habilidades leitoras dos sujeitos envolvidos no processo.

Submitted by SILVANA FERREIRA DE SOUZA null (silvana.educar@bol.com.br) on 2018-03-18T20:41:35Z No. of bitstreams: 1 TESE VERSÃO FINAL.pdf: 7367826 bytes, checksum: cc4cb2a68a3760abb420978178d2ecf2 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Claudia Adriana Spindola null (claudia@fct.unesp.br) on 2018-03-19T11:40:05Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 balsan_sfs_dr_prud.pdf: 7367826 bytes, checksum: cc4cb2a68a3760abb420978178d2ecf2 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-03-19T11:40:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 balsan_sfs_dr_prud.pdf: 7367826 bytes, checksum: cc4cb2a68a3760abb420978178d2ecf2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-02-05 / Esta Tese de Doutorado está vinculada à linha de pesquisa “Processos formativos, ensino e aprendizagem”, do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação da FCT/UNESP, campus de Presidente Prudente/SP. É uma pesquisa-ação orignada nos desafios experimentados por nós, como professora e pesquisadora sobre a formação de leitores. O objetivo desta pesquisa é compreender como o processo de múltiplas ações de leitura, articuladas entre si, influenciaria a formação de leitores autônomos. A primeira ação de leitura, denominada Oficina de estratégias de leitura baseou-se na metodologia de ensino norteamericana, a qual propõe ensinar as estratégias de leitura - visualização, conexões – textotexto, texto-leitor e texto-mundo –, perguntas ao texto, previsão, inferência, sumarização e síntese - de maneira sistematizada, por meio da modelagem de um leitor mais experiente (professor), em conjunto com leitores menos experientes (alunos). A segunda ação foi a formação de um Clube do livro, que se caracterizou por proporcionar uma prática de leitura coletiva e o compartilhamento entre todos, já que o grupo de educandos se encontrava regularmente, para discutir capítulos lidos em casa, da obra literária Chapeuzinho Adormecida no País das Maravilhas (2010), de Flávio de Souza. A terceira ação foi o Baú de leitura, que se constituiu em uma pequena biblioteca no interior da sala de aula, com um acervo de obras diversas, o qual surgiu e se ampliou a partir dos interesses e solicitações dos estudantes. Com o intuito de gerar os dados analisados, foram realizadas a observação participante, as oficinas de leitura, os registros, tanto dos participantes quanto do pesquisador, em uma sala do Ensino Fundamental de 4º ano da Rede Municipal de Ensino de Dracena/SP, cujo pesquisador era também o professor. As análises indicam que foi possível formar leitores mais autônomos, pois as três ações articuladas possibilitaram a constituição do pensamento estratégico, confirmando a importância do conhecimento prévio para o desenvolvimento da compreensão leitora. Destacou-se, ainda, a necessidade de proporcionar momentos de leitura, seja individual, seja compartilhada, nos quais o professor é o mediador ofertando progressivamente leituras que favoreçam o desenvolvimento da autonomia dos alunos. / This doctoral thesis is related to the line of research “Formative Processes, Teaching and Learning” of the Graduate Program in Education of the College of Science and Technology (FCT/UNESP), Presidente Prudente/SP campus. It is an action research whose origins lie in the challenges experienced by us as teacher and researcher on Readers´ Formation. The aim of this research is to understand how the process of multiple actions of reading, articulated among themselves, influences the formation of autonomous readers. The first action of reading, namely Reading Strategy Workshop, based has as its foundation the North-American teaching methodology, which proposes to teach reading strategies – visualizing, making connections (text to text, text to self and text to world) asking questions, predicting, inferring, summarizing and synthetizing – in a systematic way, by means of the carving by a more experienced reader (teacher), along with less experienced readers (students). The second action was the creation of a Book Club, which enables a collective practice of reading, shared among everyone involved, since the group of students had a meeting once a week to discuss chapters read at home of the work Sleeping Riding Hood in Wonderland (2010), by Flávio de Souza. The third action was the Reading Chest, which is a small library inside a classroom and made of various books. It was created and enhanced based on students´ interests and demands. In order to generate the data analyzed, it was carried out the participant observation, the reading workshops, the appointments, both by the participants and the researcher, in a Fourth Grade classroom of the Elementary Education, in a public city school in Dracena town, São Paulo state, in which the researcher is also the teacher. The analyses point out that it was possible to develop more autonomous readers, because the three articulated actions made possible the usage of strategic thinking by the children, based on the teaching methodology of metacognitive reading strategies, which corroborates the importance of previous knowledge to the development of reading comprehension. Also, it is underlined the need for reading moments in which, individually or shared, the teacher is a mediator between text and student. Besides, it is up to the teacher to make a profile of the students, through dialogue and recurring interviews, in the interest of offering progressive readings which advance the development of students´ autonomy.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:06:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 TacianaLB.pdf: 1646785 bytes, checksum: 0f832cb7dc62dc74adc2c9e2c1d04098 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-11-27 / 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 Jer?nimo Rosado in Mossor? 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 incorpora??o da inform?tica na escola levou alunos a utilizar a internet e os s?tios virtuais como suportes de conte?dos de ensino/aprendizagem. Pr?tica esta que desafiou os alunos a ler por meio de hipertextos eletr?nicos. Assim, buscamos conhecer quais estrat?gias de leitura e navega??o os alunos do 2? e 3? anos do ensino m?dio, utilizam quando l?em os hipertextos eletr?nicos do s?tio virtualwww.ambientebrasil.com.br. A investiga??o foi realizada na Escola Estadual Jer?nimo Rosado em Mossor?-RN. Nosso cerne te?rico foi fundamentado nas Tecnologias Digitais, no tocante ?s caracter?sticas estruturais do hipertexto eletr?nico e sua navega??o, na Ling??stica Aplicada, sobre o ato de ler e na Cogni??o, sobre a intera??o do leitor com o texto e o uso de estrat?gias de leitura na virtualidade. Como metodologia utilizamos o estudo de caso, que permitiu a uni?o dos dados coletados, com question?rios qualitativos, observa??o direta e filmagem. A pesquisa evidenciou que a coer?ncia sem?ntica e arquitetura dos hiperlinks; a quantidade de hipertextos eletr?nicos por p?gina; o h?bito de leitura em s?tios virtuais e a adi??o de elementos multim?dia ao hipertexto e hiperlinks regem o emprego de estrat?gias de leitura espec?ficas, como representam obst?culo ? leitura quando aplicados inadequadamente

Being a skilled reader makes it easier to learn a new language. It is important to teach students how the knowledge and use of reading strategies can facilitate learning. This study was made in a Swedish fourth grade class with eighteen participant pupils. They were asked to translate two texts from English into Swedish: one was a poem with nonsense words, and the other a prose text. The texts were taken from Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll and The Garbage King by Elizabeth Laird. After this an interview was made with all of the pupils in pairs, where they were asked about their reading strategies normally and in this situation. The results found were that the reading strategies used were: likeness with their native language, previous vocabulary knowledge of the L2, syntactic knowledge, and guessing the meaning through the context. The result confirms previous research in that the pupils who liked reading and did so in their spare time, did better when it came to making syntactically correct translations.

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No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Ana Agda de Oliveira Santos - 2017.pdf: 4401204 bytes, checksum: b6d847de1d571e57ee20405599789b3e (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-07-14 / This study is focused on the analysis of the reading and comprehension process carried out by students from the Youth and Adult Education integrated into the professional technical education in the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Goiás, in the city of Anápolis, in English classes mediated by Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). It aims to 1) understand the process of negotiating the meaning of the text – that is, understanding the author’s ideas through the reader’s interaction with the text – shared by students in English reading classes; 2) verify the use of reading strategies, including the electronic translator, in the comprehension of text genres in digital format with the aid of ICTs; 3) discuss the importance of reading text genres in digital format in order to make the youth and adult education students more critical readers, using the technological tools and 4) identify issues related to computer and the Internet use during this process. This research is grounded on studies developed by Bakhtin (2006, 2011, 2013), Lankshear and Knobel (2006), Leffa (1996, 1999, 2006), Marcuschi (2005, 2007, 2008, 2011), Nutall (1996), Oliveira (2013) and some other scholars who approach the subject in question. The methodology used was based on a qualitative case study and in order to generate the data, the reading and writing activities the participants did, questionnaires, interviews and field notes were used. The results showed that the students were able to understand the main ideas of the texts, getting some specific information successfully. However, they used contextual inference strategies and classroom vocabulary minimally and did not make a more critical assessment of the material read. In contrast, they overused the electronic translator to answer the text comprehension activities. The data also showed that some students presented an elementary level of computer literacy and others an intermediate level, whereas, some had a satisfactory level of multimedia literacy and others an unsatisfactory level. / Este estudo centra-se na análise dos processos de leitura e compreensão realizados pelos alunos do programa de Educação de Jovens e Adultos (EJA) Integrado à Educação Profissional Técnica do Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de Goiás, Campus Anápolis, nas aulas de inglês mediadas pelas Tecnologias da Informação e Comunicação (TICs). Ele objetiva (1) compreender o processo de negociação do sentido do texto, isto é, a compreensão das ideias do autor por meio da interação do leitor com o texto – partilhado pelos alunos, nas aulas de leitura em inglês; 2) verificar a utilização das estratégias de leitura, incluindo o tradutor eletrônico, na compreensão dos gêneros textuais em formato digital com o auxílio das TICs; 3) discutir a importância da leitura de gêneros textuais em formato digital, a fim de tornar os educandos da EJA leitores mais críticos, usando as ferramentas tecnológicas; e 4) identificar questões relativas à utilização do computador e da Internet durante esse processo. Fundamentam o estudo os postulados de Bakhtin (2006, 2011, 2013), Lankshear e Knobel (2006), Leffa (1996, 1999, 2006), Marcuschi (2005, 2007, 2008, 2011), Nutall (1996), Oliveira (2013) e outros autores que tratam do tema proposto. A metodologia empregada se situa no estudo de caso de natureza qualitativa e conta com os seguintes instrumentos de pesquisa: documentação de exercícios de leitura e escrita, questionários, entrevistas e anotações de campo. Os resultados mostraram que os alunos conseguiram entender a ideia geral dos textos, buscando algumas informações específicas dentro deles com sucesso. Entretanto, eles utilizaram minimamente as estratégias de inferência contextual e o vocabulário trabalhado em sala e não fizeram uma avaliação mais crítica do material lido. Em contrapartida, fizeram o uso demasiado do tradutor eletrônico para responder às atividades de compreensão do texto. Os dados também apontaram que alguns alunos apresentaram um nível de letramento computacional elementar e outros, intermediário, ao passo que uns tiveram um nível de letramento multimidiático satisfatório e outros, um nível insatisfatório.

Este trabalho busca estabelecer diretrizes teóricas e práticas para a preparação e execução de cursos de língua estrangeira para leitura, com exemplos retirados de um curso de alemão para leitura de textos de Filosofia e Ciências Sociais, realizado através do Centro de Línguas da Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas da Universidade de São Paulo no ano letivo de 2006. Com este trabalho buscamos orientar professores que trabalham com o desenvolvimento da habilidade de leitura em língua estrangeira e levantar questões relacionadas ao tema. / This dissertation tries to establish theoretical and practical guidelines for the preparation and implementation of foreign language reading courses utilizing examples from a German reading course for Philosophy and Social Sciences that took place in 2006 at the Languages Center (Centro de Línguas) of the Faculty of Philosophy, Languages and Social Sciences at the University of São Paulo (Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas da Universidade de São Paulo). We are attempting to help language teachers who work with the development of foreign language reading skills and to raise questions about this subject.

This is a study about English teachers’ perception on teaching students with dyslexia reading and reading strategies and their knowledge gained on the subject matter. The aim was to identify, describe and analyse the teacher‟s perceptions of teaching Swedish students with dyslexia in four Swedish mainstream secondary schools. The data for this study was collected by interviews from four English teachers in four different mainstream secondary schools. The results show that English teachers get too little in-service training from their employer about dyslexia and reading difficulties. In addition the English teachers need to become more familiar with what reading strategies are and what new learning assisting materials students with dyslexia can make use of, such as new applications and the new HELP-program.