Trata-se de pesquisa empírica e documental realizada com três grupos distintos de jovens e adultos leitores habituais e leitores não-habituais. Um grupo composto por alunos do Cursinho Comunitário Pré-Vestibular Sagrado Coração Pastoral Cultural -, sediado na Paróquia Nossa Senhora do Sagrado Coração, outro grupo constituído por assíduos frequentadores da Biblioteca Pública Paulo Setúbal, ambos localizados na Vila Formosa, Zona Leste da Cidade de São Paulo, e, o terceiro grupo formado por participantes do Núcleo da Palavra, do Laboratório Experimental de Arte- Educação & Cultura Lab_Arte, da Faculdade de Educação, da Universidade de São Paulo Feusp. O Objetivo é desvelar as principais questões comportamentais e educacionais geradoras das dificuldades e/ou facilidades com a leitura de obras literárias desenvolvidas no trajeto da formação do leitor. Formação para leitura que pressupõe, nesta tese, uma fisiologia simbólica da leitura, que se instaura nos espaços-tempos familiar, escolar e cultural, conformando-se através da pessoa do leitor, num processo que perpassa a corporeidade. A pesquisa reflete sobre os leitores a partir da reflexão dos mesmos sobre suas trajetórias com a leitura de obras literárias, registradas nas redações produzidas pelos alunos do cursinho, nas entrevistas concedidas pelos leitores da biblioteca e nas produções de textos de cunho poético e narrativo, escritas pelos participantes do Núcleo da Palavra, privilegiando assim uma hermenêutica pontuada pelo gradiente-holonômico, ou seja por múltiplos olhares que integram vários pontos de vista, inclusive o do leitor, focando o tema de modo a verificar as relações que as pessoas estabelecem com a leitura, interpretando-a de modo de deleitoso ou angustiante. O referencial teórico norteador fundamenta-se em Gilbert Durand nAs Estruturas Antropológicas do Imaginário e A Imaginação Simbólica, apoiado pela compreensão do imaginário em Gaston Bachelard, Danielle Perin Rocha Pitta, Marcos Ferreira-Santos, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Paul Ricoeur, acrescidos dos pensamentos sobre literatura, arte e educação de Antônio Cândido, Edmir Perrotti, Paulo Freire, Michel de Certeau, dentre outros. / This paper deals with empirical and documentary research data culled from 3 different habitual and non-habitual readerships comprised of youngsters and adults. The first group comprehends students from the Sacred Heart Community Pre- College Preparatory Course, located in the Our Lady of the Sacred Heart parish. The second group comprehends regular readers from Paulo Setúbal Public Library. Both sites are located in Vila Formosa district, East Area of the city of São Paulo. The third group was formed by collaborators of the Literary Nucleus of the Art, Education and Culture Experimental Lab belonging to the School of Education of Universidade de São Paulo (FEUSP). The aim of the present work is to reveal the main behavioral and educational issues which generate both the difficulties and ease of understanding literary works, and which occur along the formation of readerships themselves. Reading formation presupposes herein a symbolic reading physiology, which settles upon family, school and cultural space-times and shows itself through the figure of the reader, in a process which lies beyond readers´ actions. The research reflects on readerships based on their own perception about their track records in reading literary works, which were registered in prep courses´ students´ essays, in interviews with library readers and in poetic and narrative texts written by Literary Nucleus collaborators. Thus there is herein the prevalence of hermeneutics marked by an emerging paradigm, that is, by multiple looks which belong to several viewpoints, including that of the reader, framing the subject matter so that relations between reader and reading process might be verified, the last being interpreted as either pleasant or annoying. Theoretical references are mainly Gilbert Durand´s works (Anthropological Structures of the Imaginary and The Symbolic Imagination), supported by the understanding of the imaginary in Gaston Bachelard, Danielle Perin Rocha Pitta, Marcos Ferreira-Santos, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Paul Ricoeur, as well as by thoughts about literature, art and education in Antonio Candido, Edmir Perrotti, Paulo Freire, Michel de Certeau, among others.

Trata-se de pesquisa empírica e documental realizada com três grupos distintos de jovens e adultos leitores habituais e leitores não-habituais. Um grupo composto por alunos do Cursinho Comunitário Pré-Vestibular Sagrado Coração Pastoral Cultural -, sediado na Paróquia Nossa Senhora do Sagrado Coração, outro grupo constituído por assíduos frequentadores da Biblioteca Pública Paulo Setúbal, ambos localizados na Vila Formosa, Zona Leste da Cidade de São Paulo, e, o terceiro grupo formado por participantes do Núcleo da Palavra, do Laboratório Experimental de Arte- Educação & Cultura Lab_Arte, da Faculdade de Educação, da Universidade de São Paulo Feusp. O Objetivo é desvelar as principais questões comportamentais e educacionais geradoras das dificuldades e/ou facilidades com a leitura de obras literárias desenvolvidas no trajeto da formação do leitor. Formação para leitura que pressupõe, nesta tese, uma fisiologia simbólica da leitura, que se instaura nos espaços-tempos familiar, escolar e cultural, conformando-se através da pessoa do leitor, num processo que perpassa a corporeidade. A pesquisa reflete sobre os leitores a partir da reflexão dos mesmos sobre suas trajetórias com a leitura de obras literárias, registradas nas redações produzidas pelos alunos do cursinho, nas entrevistas concedidas pelos leitores da biblioteca e nas produções de textos de cunho poético e narrativo, escritas pelos participantes do Núcleo da Palavra, privilegiando assim uma hermenêutica pontuada pelo gradiente-holonômico, ou seja por múltiplos olhares que integram vários pontos de vista, inclusive o do leitor, focando o tema de modo a verificar as relações que as pessoas estabelecem com a leitura, interpretando-a de modo de deleitoso ou angustiante. O referencial teórico norteador fundamenta-se em Gilbert Durand nAs Estruturas Antropológicas do Imaginário e A Imaginação Simbólica, apoiado pela compreensão do imaginário em Gaston Bachelard, Danielle Perin Rocha Pitta, Marcos Ferreira-Santos, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Paul Ricoeur, acrescidos dos pensamentos sobre literatura, arte e educação de Antônio Cândido, Edmir Perrotti, Paulo Freire, Michel de Certeau, dentre outros. / This paper deals with empirical and documentary research data culled from 3 different habitual and non-habitual readerships comprised of youngsters and adults. The first group comprehends students from the Sacred Heart Community Pre- College Preparatory Course, located in the Our Lady of the Sacred Heart parish. The second group comprehends regular readers from Paulo Setúbal Public Library. Both sites are located in Vila Formosa district, East Area of the city of São Paulo. The third group was formed by collaborators of the Literary Nucleus of the Art, Education and Culture Experimental Lab belonging to the School of Education of Universidade de São Paulo (FEUSP). The aim of the present work is to reveal the main behavioral and educational issues which generate both the difficulties and ease of understanding literary works, and which occur along the formation of readerships themselves. Reading formation presupposes herein a symbolic reading physiology, which settles upon family, school and cultural space-times and shows itself through the figure of the reader, in a process which lies beyond readers´ actions. The research reflects on readerships based on their own perception about their track records in reading literary works, which were registered in prep courses´ students´ essays, in interviews with library readers and in poetic and narrative texts written by Literary Nucleus collaborators. Thus there is herein the prevalence of hermeneutics marked by an emerging paradigm, that is, by multiple looks which belong to several viewpoints, including that of the reader, framing the subject matter so that relations between reader and reading process might be verified, the last being interpreted as either pleasant or annoying. Theoretical references are mainly Gilbert Durand´s works (Anthropological Structures of the Imaginary and The Symbolic Imagination), supported by the understanding of the imaginary in Gaston Bachelard, Danielle Perin Rocha Pitta, Marcos Ferreira-Santos, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Paul Ricoeur, as well as by thoughts about literature, art and education in Antonio Candido, Edmir Perrotti, Paulo Freire, Michel de Certeau, among others.

L’étude de la compréhension de textes a toujours pris en compte les connaissances du lecteur que Le Ny (2005) définit comme des représentations vraies. Or, ces connaissances peuvent être des croyances voire des idéologies (van Dijk, 1998). Si la compréhension de textes fait appel aux connaissances spécifiques et/ou générales du lecteur en relation avec les informations contenues dans le texte pour construire une représentation cohérente, cette compréhension sera médiatisée par l’inscription idéologique du lecteur. Dans ce travail, nous avons mené trois séries d’expériences étudiant le rôle que peut jouer l’idéologie des lecteurs dans la compréhension de textes. La première série d’expériences, réalisée sur papier avec des français d’origine maghrébine, a mis en évidence grâce à deux types de textes (neutres et idéologiques) que la compréhension est sensible à l’idéologie du lecteur. La deuxième série d’expériences, implémentée sur ordinateurs, a confirmé les résultats obtenus précédemment et montré que les lecteurs n’ont pas lu ces deux types de textes aussi rapidement. Dans un souci méthodologique, nous avons élargi, dans la troisième série d’expérience, notre approche à une autre population afin de dissocier l’effet de l’origine du lecteur de celui de son idéologie. Les résultats obtenus montrent que la compréhension est sensible plus à l’idéologie du lecteur qu’à son origine. Les lecteurs qu’ils soient français de souche ou d’origine maghrébine, ont tendance à moins accepter les informations véhiculées par un texte idéologique lorsqu’elles sont en désaccord avec leurs croyances même si ces dernières sont présentes dans le texte et plausibles pour expliquer l’événement. / The study of texts comprehension has always taken into consideration the reader’s knowledge which Le Ny (2005) defines as real representations. However, this knowledge can be beliefs even ideologies (van Dijk, 1998). If the comprehension of texts appeals to the specific and\or general knowledge of the reader in connection with the information contained in the text to build a coherent representation, this comprehension would be mediatised by the reader’s ideological inscription. In this work, we have led three series of experiments studying the role that can play readers’ ideology in the comprehension of texts. The first series of experiences, realized on paper with French from Maghreb origins, put in evidence through two types of texts (neutral and ideological) that the comprehension is sensitive to reader’s ideology. The second series of experiments, implemented on computers, has confirmed the results previously obtained and has shown that the readers had not read these two types of texts so quickly. To fulfill a methodological gap, we have widened, in the third series of experiment, our approach to another population in order to dissociate the effect of the reader’s origin and that of its ideology. The results obtained show that the comprehension is much more sensitive to the reader’s ideology rather than to its origin. The readers who they are French or of Maghrebian origin, tend to accept less the information conveyed by an ideological text when they disagree with their beliefs even if these last ones are present in the text and plausible to explain the event.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of explicit instruction combined with video prompting to teach text comprehension skills to students with autism spectrum disorder. Participants included 4 elementary school students with autism. A multiple probe across participants design was used to evaluate the intervention’s effectiveness. Results indicated that the intervention was successful for all participants. All participants mastered the comprehension skills; however, data were highly variable during the acquisition phase. Implications for researchers and practitioners are discussed.

A presente tese tem por objetivo investigar os efeitos do uso do minerador de textos Sobek no processo de leitura e compreensão textual de estudantes. Este minerador de textos é capaz de extrair informações relevantes de textos e representá-las de forma gráfica. Esta tese está apoiada nas teorias de aprendizagem significativa, de uso de mapas conceituais para representação de conhecimento e em pesquisas que apontam que representações gráficas de palavras auxiliam na leitura de textos e na sua decodificação. De acordo com a pesquisa de David Ausubel, a aprendizagem significativa ocorre através da assimilação de novos conceitos e ideias e associação destas ao conhecimento que a pessoa já possui. Através da utilização de um minerador de textos com representação gráfica de informações, busca-se apresentar aos estudantes uma representação visual de textos. Esta representação se assemelha a de um mapa conceitual, de forma a auxiliar no processo de compreensão e assimilação de informações pelos estudantes. Nesta representação, ligações entre termos considerados relevantes pelo minerador auxiliam no entendimento destes termos e simbolizam relações presentes no texto, fato esse que pode auxiliar os estudantes a compreenderem melhor o texto e relacionarem novas informações àquelas que já possuem Nesta tese, foi realizado um estudo para auxiliar estudantes nas atividades relacionadas ao letramento. A pesquisa se caracteriza como mista (qualitativa e quantitativa). A coleta de dados se deu a partir da aplicação de questionários com professores e alunos, além de avaliações com o objetivo de verificar contribuições do uso da ferramenta a partir de seu uso do ponto de vista do letramento. Como resultado, encontramos que estudantes que utilizaram o Sobek obtiveram um número mais elevado de respostas corretas nas atividades de interpretação de textos. Em média, os alunos acertaram 66% das questões quando utilizando o minerador de textos Sobek, contra apenas 47% das questões que eram respondidas sem o apoio do minerador. Outro resultado apresentado é o alto grau de satisfação de alunos e professores quanto à tecnologia e seu uso em sala de aula. Além destes resultados, obtivemos uma avaliação acerca da capacidade do minerador de textos de extrair termos considerados relevantes ao texto. / This thesis aimed to investigate the effects of using Sobek Text Miner to improve literacy. Sobek is a tool capable of extracting relevant information from texts and representing them in a graphical way. The thesis is supported by meaningful learning theory, conceptual maps theory and several research theories which indicate that graphical representation of words may improve reading capability and word decoding. According to David Ausubel, meaningful learning occurs through the assimilation of new concepts and ideas and association of those to what the person already knows. Using text mining with graphical representation of information, we seek to provide students with a graphical representation of a text. This text representation is similar to a concept map, helping students assimilate and comprehend that information. In Sobek’s representation, the relationship between terms considered relevant to text comprehension may assist students to better understand the meaning of each term and demonstrate relationships that are presented in the text, improving context comprehension. Furthermore, the relationship between terms may help information assimilation, once it relates the new information with previous known information This project conducted a study using Sobek text miner in classroom to support student’s literacy. In order to assess the tool’s possible benefits in reading and comprehension activities, we designed a series of classroom activities. To evaluate those activities, qualitative and quantitative approaches were used. The study was conducted in two primary schools, with students from 5th grade and 8th grade. Interviews were also made with the teachers and students, inquiring them about the tool's and main functions and its ability to help students from a literacy point of view. The study shows that students answered more correct question when using Sobek than when no support technology was used. Also, both students and teachers approved the software and agreed that it does improve student’s text comprehension. It also describes an evaluation of Sobek's capability to extract terms considered relevant for text comprehension.

Inductive reasoning (IR) requires efficient working memory (WM). Research shows that the prefrontal cortex (PFC) is involved during WM tasks and that PFC functioning declines with age. The ability to comprehend and update text-based information requires an intact PFC and efficient WM and IR. The current study presented a series of messages about the investigation of a warehouse fire to 48 young and 48 older adults. One message contained a piece of misinformation which another message corrected later. It was hypothesized that a memory cue to the misinformation with the correction statement should benefit older adults the most during the updating process. A text-based level and situation model level measured updating. The text-based level is only information from the text but is not necessarily verbatim. The situation model level is the overall meaning of the text, including inferences and assumptions. Results show that unlike young adults, older adults are not capable of recalling the text at the text-based level. However, older adults are capable of performing like young adults at the situation model level. This suggests that older adults are capable of updating causal information in text material as long as a memory cue to the misinformation is provided within the correction statement.

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"This work explores how current embodied theories of cognition can account for the comprehension of narrative texts. Theoretically, this thesis develops a framework for the study of narrative text comprehension by linking current advances in embodied theories of cognition, discourse processing, and neurosciences. Experimentally, two experiments are reported in which participants were required to read passages of text implying emotional states. The coherence of critical sentences in relation to the preceding text was manipulated in terms of both the emotional adjectives used and the sensory-motor component. In the first experiment, three tasks were used to index the effect of the manipulations on the critical sentences. The first was an on-line naming task in which response times to name emotional labels which matched the implied emotional state of the texts were recorded. [...] The second experiment used backward masking in the naming task with the aim of providing a more sensitive index of the effect of the text manipulations on on-line processing." / Master of Applied Science by research

"This work explores how current embodied theories of cognition can account for the comprehension of narrative texts. Theoretically, this thesis develops a framework for the study of narrative text comprehension by linking current advances in embodied theories of cognition, discourse processing, and neurosciences. Experimentally, two experiments are reported in which participants were required to read passages of text implying emotional states. The coherence of critical sentences in relation to the preceding text was manipulated in terms of both the emotional adjectives used and the sensory-motor component. In the first experiment, three tasks were used to index the effect of the manipulations on the critical sentences. The first was an on-line naming task in which response times to name emotional labels which matched the implied emotional state of the texts were recorded. [...] The second experiment used backward masking in the naming task with the aim of providing a more sensitive index of the effect of the text manipulations on on-line processing." / Master of Applied Science by research

A presente tese tem por objetivo investigar os efeitos do uso do minerador de textos Sobek no processo de leitura e compreensão textual de estudantes. Este minerador de textos é capaz de extrair informações relevantes de textos e representá-las de forma gráfica. Esta tese está apoiada nas teorias de aprendizagem significativa, de uso de mapas conceituais para representação de conhecimento e em pesquisas que apontam que representações gráficas de palavras auxiliam na leitura de textos e na sua decodificação. De acordo com a pesquisa de David Ausubel, a aprendizagem significativa ocorre através da assimilação de novos conceitos e ideias e associação destas ao conhecimento que a pessoa já possui. Através da utilização de um minerador de textos com representação gráfica de informações, busca-se apresentar aos estudantes uma representação visual de textos. Esta representação se assemelha a de um mapa conceitual, de forma a auxiliar no processo de compreensão e assimilação de informações pelos estudantes. Nesta representação, ligações entre termos considerados relevantes pelo minerador auxiliam no entendimento destes termos e simbolizam relações presentes no texto, fato esse que pode auxiliar os estudantes a compreenderem melhor o texto e relacionarem novas informações àquelas que já possuem Nesta tese, foi realizado um estudo para auxiliar estudantes nas atividades relacionadas ao letramento. A pesquisa se caracteriza como mista (qualitativa e quantitativa). A coleta de dados se deu a partir da aplicação de questionários com professores e alunos, além de avaliações com o objetivo de verificar contribuições do uso da ferramenta a partir de seu uso do ponto de vista do letramento. Como resultado, encontramos que estudantes que utilizaram o Sobek obtiveram um número mais elevado de respostas corretas nas atividades de interpretação de textos. Em média, os alunos acertaram 66% das questões quando utilizando o minerador de textos Sobek, contra apenas 47% das questões que eram respondidas sem o apoio do minerador. Outro resultado apresentado é o alto grau de satisfação de alunos e professores quanto à tecnologia e seu uso em sala de aula. Além destes resultados, obtivemos uma avaliação acerca da capacidade do minerador de textos de extrair termos considerados relevantes ao texto. / This thesis aimed to investigate the effects of using Sobek Text Miner to improve literacy. Sobek is a tool capable of extracting relevant information from texts and representing them in a graphical way. The thesis is supported by meaningful learning theory, conceptual maps theory and several research theories which indicate that graphical representation of words may improve reading capability and word decoding. According to David Ausubel, meaningful learning occurs through the assimilation of new concepts and ideas and association of those to what the person already knows. Using text mining with graphical representation of information, we seek to provide students with a graphical representation of a text. This text representation is similar to a concept map, helping students assimilate and comprehend that information. In Sobek’s representation, the relationship between terms considered relevant to text comprehension may assist students to better understand the meaning of each term and demonstrate relationships that are presented in the text, improving context comprehension. Furthermore, the relationship between terms may help information assimilation, once it relates the new information with previous known information This project conducted a study using Sobek text miner in classroom to support student’s literacy. In order to assess the tool’s possible benefits in reading and comprehension activities, we designed a series of classroom activities. To evaluate those activities, qualitative and quantitative approaches were used. The study was conducted in two primary schools, with students from 5th grade and 8th grade. Interviews were also made with the teachers and students, inquiring them about the tool's and main functions and its ability to help students from a literacy point of view. The study shows that students answered more correct question when using Sobek than when no support technology was used. Also, both students and teachers approved the software and agreed that it does improve student’s text comprehension. It also describes an evaluation of Sobek's capability to extract terms considered relevant for text comprehension.