The reading practice in regular schools

Abstract

The reading done in a the Foreign Language classroom in regular public schools may be a difficult thing to work with. Occasionally, teachers tend to focus only on grammar and translation of texts during their classes, forgetting some other abilities, such as reading, in the process. This paper aims to carry out a research about the cognitive processes involving reading in a Foreign Language, suggest some activities that can be used in the classroom and also, make connections between the theory and the suggested activities, taking into account the reading for specific tests, such as ENEM or vestibulares - tests done for students acceptance into Universities and colleges. In order to develop this paper, the methodology done is by bibliographical review of articles, books and magazines. Some authors used to build up the project are: Brown (1994), Collie and Slater (1992), Day and Bamford (2002), Harmer (2007), Kleiman (2002), Leffa (1996), among others (sic).