Fatores que dificultam a compreensão da leitura: um estudo contemplando alunos do curso de Ciências Contábeis

Abstract

Reading is a medium that allows access to knowledge and, when practiced, brings the reader many skills as criticality, better understanding, greater concentration, among others, and to promote professional and personal development of the individual. Research conducted with college students indicated that they have difficulty reading as tiredness due to work, reduced time to exercise reading comprehension problems, among others. Given the above, this study aimed to analyze the factors that hinder the reading of students of Accounting Sciences, Federal University of Paraíba. The research was descriptive in nature and is characterized as a field research and literature. The results showed that most students do not have reading difficulties. Have a small portion of that feature, highlighted difficulties as physical and mental fatigue, lack of time, concentration, and others. It can be observed that 54.36% of students who collaborated on the research, are completing the the Accounting course and will soon conclude, consider themselves good readers.