AS PRÁTICAS DE LEITURA DOS ALUNOS DA EDUCAÇÃO DE JOVENS E ADULTOS

Abstract

This work aims to investigate the literacy practices related to reading that EJA students perform inside and outside school. For the theoretical basis, we rely on the considerations of Soares (2009) and Kleiman (2005) regarding literacy, Leffa (1996) and Solé (2014) regarding reading, in addition to the reflections of Basegio and Medeiros (2012), Gadotti and Romão (2011), Siqueira and Guidotti (2017), SOEK (2010), Curriculum Proposal of the State of Paraíba (2018), and Curitiba (2006) on EJA. Under a qualitative approach, of an interpretive nature, we carried out a field research, which had as a collection instrument, questionnaires applied in August 2019, in person, to 21 students from an EJA class of a state school located in city of João Pessoa-PB. As for the methodology used for data analysis, we used the comparative method. The results show that between reading and writing, students prefer reading, but most of them do not like long texts. The results also showed that students signaled that they have some difficulty in interpreting the texts. The data also showed that reading is the activity most performed by participants outside of school, among the preferences are texts of the news genre and the Bible. And finally, on the relationship between practices inside and outside the school, the data indicated that most students do not use the activities learned at school, but see reading as a tool for acquiring knowledge.