Dificuldades na compreensão leitora

: o processo inferencial como estratégia a utilizar em textos

Abstract

The interest of research by reading comprehension due to the fact of reading play, an important role in learning and success in school and professionally. Reading is regarded as an indispensable tool that allows readers to access a set of experiences and knowledge. Thus, given the importance attached to it, is crucial to know and understand their methods and acquisition models, the processes underlying it, the components that constitute it, as well as the strategies and teaching methodologies as a way of be able to develop more consistent practices, effective and appropriate for students to prevent the development of learning difficulties (LD) in reading comprehension. The overall goal of this work is therefore to understand and verify the effectiveness of the implementation of methodologies and strategies of reading comprehension among pupils secondary school with and without LD. We chose a qualitative approach, through participant observation, in which took part in this study, 40 students from two classes of two on a Primary School in the municipality of Viseu. The results lead us to conclude that the application of methodologies and strategies of inferential questions helps to develop and improve reading comprehension in students with and without LD.

Date of Award	2012
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Célia Ribeiro (Supervisor) & Cristina Simões (Co-Supervisor)