O emprego de estratégias de leitura em textos de inglês como LE.

Abstract

The present work analyses the use of reading strategies in Foreign Language, which were employed by students of V Semester of the Language Course of Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul (UNISC), in 2008. The qualitative methodology used in this study includes: filling in questionnaires and answering the exercises of comprehension and reading interpretation. The data obtained in this research confirmed the importance of the use of reading strategies and they indicated the reading strategies used with more frequency by investigated students in terms of textual approach, besides the research tried to evince the reiterated resource to a specific strategy group of cognitive strategies, comprehension strategies and metacognitive strategies, besides the intense mobilization of the mind through the mobilization of the previous knowledge through the comparison between the mother language and the foreign language. The research brought also, the facilitation of the textual comprehension from the use of mobilized strategies, the emotion influence in reading, the development of the linguistic awareness as well as the change of the reading process during the semester, facts that confirm the hypothesis and the relevance of the use of the reading strategies to a better comprehension, that occurs invariably under another hypothesis, the emotion influence, negative or positive. The results here exposed could be useful mainly to the area of languages. And in terms of reading the study can contribute to the teaching of reading in foreign language and to the teaching of reading, in a general way, in all subjects of elementary, high school and university learning.