The act of reading in basic education and the students readers’ training

Abstract

This study aims to identify and analyze the conceptions and reading practices of 9th grade students, in order to reflect the reality and the possibilities for the improvement of the reading act in the school context. The study was carried out in the second half of 2015, in which a questionnaire was used with open questions, including two classes from the 9th grade of Elementary School in the morning shifr of a school located in the outskirts of Londrina-PR. It is a qualitative research, with a critical-dialectic approach, whose analysis and reflections were based on authors who supported themselves in the historical-critical perspective, i.e.  Vygotsky (2008), Lúria (1978), Leontiev (2004), Arena (2010), among others. In the general aspect, it was possible to verify that the participants consider the reading fundamental for the  human and professional formation process. However, it is necessary to provide appropriate reading spaces and methodologies so that students can develop the reading act  in a critical and humanizing way..