O professor de língua portuguesa e o processo de ensino da leitura e interpretação de texto

Abstract

Reading and text interpretation are the basis of the literacy process and the formation of citizenship. In this perspective, it is up to the teacher to perceive that he educates and teaches for the development of the student's potential, both individual and social. This article aims to show the difficulties encountered by the Portuguese language teacher in the process of teaching reading and interpreting texts for students in the morning shift of Elementary School at a municipal school in Maués-Am. The investigation was based on a field research through the application of a questionnaire with open questions to Portuguese language teachers in the morning shift of a municipal school and with the pedagogical coordinators. The text discusses some conceptions of reading and text interpretation, the teaching of reading and text interpretation in elementary school, as well as the Portuguese language teacher in the process of teaching reading and text interpretation. This research is theoretically based on PCN (1998); ANTUNES, (2003); SOLÉ, (1998) among others. The results lead us to believe that our academic training has not been sufficient to overcome the difficulties presented in teaching practice, especially when referring to the teaching process of reading and interpreting texts, as it is well known that teachers themselves, in the exercise of their teaching practice, also present difficulties of interpretation.