Abstract

PINTO, Alex B. A.  and  FERREIRA, Sandra Patrícia A.. The reading comprehension and inferential process of an elderly student. Psicol. teor. prat. [online]. 2021, vol.23, n.3, pp. 1-24. ISSN 1516-3687.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5935/1980-6906/ePTPPE13226.

This article is part of a master's dissertation that investigated the reading comprehension and the inferential process of elderly students from a youth and adults class. Only data from one of the participants will be considered, which were constructed through semi-structured interviews and reading sessions. The interviews aimed to identify the participant's life and reading stories. The reading sessions consisted of answering inferential questions about two texts - a cordel and a poem - divided into parts previously established by the researcher. The results showed that: the participant's reading comprehension and inferential processes were based mainly on the textual material; there was a connection between the participant's life and reading histories and his comprehension of the texts, and, moreover, it was demonstrated that there was a greater difficulty for the participant in reading the poetic genre than in reading the cordel genre.

Keywords : reading comprehension; inference; textual genre; elderly; EJA.

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