A leitura de uma reportagem de divulgação científica: a influência da multimodalidade e o uso de estratégias de leitura

• Autor(a) principal: Barroso, Suellen Lopes
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
• Texto Completo: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/4865
• topic: Leitura; Multimodalidade; Estratégias de leitura; Reading; Multimodality; Reading strategies; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LINGUISTICA::LINGUISTICA APLICADA

This research is in Applied Linguistic field of study, specifically in Mother TongueTeaching and it emerged from the need of understanding how we read and which resources are used on text reading and on textual genres composed by verbal and nonverbal language, also called multimodal texts and genres. It also comes from the need of understanding how thepresence of visual elements such as infographics influence the reading. In this way, we investigated the reading of a scientific report accompanied by an infographic, aiming to understanding how university students read and process the genres composed by verbal and nonverbal language, how they act, which reading strategies they make use and how the infographic influences the reading. In order to achieve our aims, we divided the participants in to two groups. One of them read a complet report accompanied by an infographic (text A) and the other one only read a verbal text from the report without that infographic (text B). Both of the groups were submitted to three methods of data collection: the verbal protocol, the list of reading strategies and the understanding questionnaire. The first method was applied to observe the reading perception, the procedures adopted and some reading strategies. The reading inventories were applied to observe the strategies used and the questionnaires were used to evaluate the understanding. Each method was elaborated according to the text that every group of readers had access. In our analyses, we found that, besides ensuring more flexibility on chosen ways of reading, the presence of infographic contributes to a superior retention of the information and a better comprehension of the details described on it. However, its presence was not able to improve the global comprehension of the text. In relation to the reading of multimodality genres, we found out that despite the similar characteristics to the reading of verbal texts, it also owns specific particularities of the nonverbal language which include the spatial organization, the use of colors and size. All of these needs to be considered on reading, because they contribute to the meaning making of the process. We also checked that almost 60% of the readers showed that they acted strategically, establishing inferences, seeking correlations between the verbal and the nonverbal language, selecting relevant information to make the images, the infographic and parts of the reports meaningful. However, we evidenced some readers showed difficulties to understand the infographic visual information and to express the possible relation in its visual organization. Concerning the reading strategies, we found out that the use of strategies contributed to the readers of text A, with info graphic, and of the text B, without info graphic, had a good comprehension. The study also revealed a necessity of the teaching of reading to focus on the comprehension of strategies, mainly the multimodal ones.