A competência leitora na perspectiva do SARESP: A habilidade de inferir informação implícita em texto escrito

Abstract

This research, under the perspective of SARESP test, analyses the main reasons that make students from Basic Education have difficulties in understanding inferences. Based in two targets, this research tries to verify what the approaching conferred by SARESP to the questions shows about reading ability and analyze how this evaluation approaches the texts and watches the questions that verify the inferences. The main question focuses in how the texts and questions presented in SARESP test verify the ability of inference from implicit information, and what it means in relation to reading ability required by this evaluation related to the analyzed ability. The corpus of this research is composed by texts and questions which focuses the ability of inferring implicit information from a text in SARESP evaluation, referring to the years of 2003 and 2004. The result of this research reveals that the difficulties present by the students related to the reading ability concerned to the deduction process aren t exclusively students responsibility. The way that the test is structured and the way the texts are proposed and questions developed also interfere negatively in reading ability, concerning to the inference process