Leitura e compreensão de enunciados de exercícios de língua portuguesa

Abstract

This research is the result of questions that have been raised during Portuguese classes, where one has observed aspects concerning reading and the comprehension of exercise statements in Portuguese that aim at orienting the students for the work of understanding texts. Its aim is to check the lexicon and the subjectivity elements that make that work of reading and understanding the exercises statements easier or harder for the student. In doing so, one tries to answer the following question: why don t the students understand the exercise statements in Portuguese? In the quest for that answer, one starts from the hypothesis according to which students do not understand the exercises statements because they do not master reading. The corpus of this research is made of exercises statements taken from students books, which have been read and reported by the subject participants of this research, by means of verbal acts. The analysis has researched upon the following: i) the reading comprehension of exercises statements experienced by the students; ii) the lexical obstacles found on their way; and iii) the elements of subjectivity present in the exercises statements that make their job easier or harder to perform. The results of such a research confirm the initial hypothesis. Moreover, they show that the resolution of the proposed exercises depend on the reading comprehension of the students of its statements. One can thus confirm that the lexical ability of the students strongly interferes on the reading comprehension of the exercises statements, and also that the elements of subjectivity of the language can perform as a facilitator on the reading comprehension of those exercises statements