Text Comprehension in Deaf Teenagers

• Autor(a) principal: Macedo dos Santos, Lúcia Helena
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Bompastor Borges Dias, Ma. da Graça
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Psicologia (Universidade de Brasília. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/revistaptp/article/view/17330
• topic: Compreensão de textos; Adolescentes surdos; Língua preferencial; Text comprehension; Deaf teenagers; Preferential language

We investigated the processes of comprehension of those aspects of text which depend on either literal informationor inferences. Subjects, 12 to 20 years old, schooling levels not beyond the end of Elementary School in public andspecial schools, were divided into three groups: deaf teenagers who had LIBRAS as preferential language; deaf users ofPortuguese language in its oral form, and teenagers with normal hearing. The subjects individually read a story and answeredliteral and inferential questions and justified their responses. Deaf users of Portuguese language in its oral form had moredifficulty in understanding the story than deaf users of LIBRAS and those with normal hearing. There were no differences inanswers given by subjects who read the text and subjects to whom the story was read. Results indicated that deaf users ofLIBRAS had similar performance and normal hearing teenagers.