Compreensão leitora em língua estrangeira: uma perspectiva saussuriana para o ensino em escolas de idiomas

Abstract

This dissertation aims at proposing reading comprehension learning situations in English, based on Saussurian concepts of value, system, and the notion of relation, for students at level B1, of the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR), in schools of languages. To this end, in addition to the study of the theoretical assumptions that underlie this study, the criteria proposed by the QECR regarding reading comprehension skills for teaching and learning a foreign language are examined. It also explains the global language status acquired by the English language at world level, as well as the influence of cultural aspects in the learning of a foreign language, and the relationship between language and culture through the anthropological bias. It has as object of study activities of a collection of didactic books (workbook and student book), used in a language school. From this, possibilities of reading teaching in English, that collaborate to the development of abilities of reading comprehension, are suggested, aiming at the constitution of the sense of discourse. This study seeks to broaden the research on the process of teaching foreign languages as it proposes new perspectives for the approach of reading in language schools and expands studies on the issue of teaching in postgraduate school.