O ensino da leitura em curso de graduação em tecnologia

Abstract

This paper deals with the teaching of the Portuguese Language in Technology Graduation Courses, approaching studies of reading and comprehension of texts in the light of Cognitive Science and Textual Linguistics as pedagogical tools of support to the teaching practice. It came from the assumption that the university student doesn t have strategies efficient enough for the comprehension of general texts and specific of the area, having difficulties relating topics, reconstructing argumentative connections, identifying the general objectives, assumptions recovering, rescuing inter-textual relations, making inferences and summarizing textual information. To the elaboration of the proposed activities that have as an objective to teach the students the adequate monitoring of reading from linguistic and extra-linguistic textual elements, it was approached cognitive and meta-cognitive strategies that made easier the mediation student text teacher in the classroom. The results obtained with two groups from the Technology College, applying the studies in directed activities, pointing to the responsibility of the professor as mediator of the process of teaching reading and ratifying the importance of its involvement with the group for the identification and the knowledge of its profile and the professional demand by the labor market. It is pointed out that due to the socio-ideological character of the language, the reading public, through written texts, build and rebuild its mental representations discursively presented by the author. This way the professor doesn t alienate from the idea that reading suggests a built social place , cognitively by the human being. This way, in the selection of general and specific texts a well as in the activities planning, attesting the dominium of these theoretical knowledge by the professor and his ability to diversify the practices that bring up the pleasure of reading in the students and the worry with the critical analysis of the information conveyed, promoting the interactive participation of the students in the classroom. It was concluded that the social legitimacy and the textual semantics connected to specific communicative situations interfere in reading and production of senses by the reader because he constantly rescues knowledge and cultural beliefs already stored in the memory. That is why the class of the mother tongue, specifically the textual comprehension activities, needs an interactive pedagogical practice between professor and students. It is in this dialogic movement that the professor inserts himself as a mediator when presenting strategies that motivate the active participation of the students in class, in theme discussions or in the necessary inferences to the widen of knowledge that aim help the building up a critical citizen updated in the society in which he participates