O efeito de priming sintático na leitura de sentenças na voz passiva por bons e maus leitores dos 5º e 6º anos do ensino fundamental

• Ano de defesa: 2017
• Autor(a) principal: Kramer, Rossana
• Orientador(a): Buchweitz, Augusto
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras
• Departamento: Escola de Humanidades
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Processamento Sintático; Efeitos de Priming; Bons e Maus Leitores; Voz Passiva
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS
• Link de acesso: http://tede2.pucrs.br/tede2/handle/tede/7579

The present study aimed at investigating the priming effect of repeated syntactic structures in elementary school children. Reading is a complex process that requires the use of many skills which depend on processes called lower cognitive processes in the first years of elementary school, such as decoding. As reading improves with practice, resources of high level cognitive skills start being used by readers (CAIN; OAKHILL, 2006). The priming effect consists of the identification of objects, words or sentences after a prior exposure to a related item (SQUIRE & KANDEL, 2003). According to Pickering and Branigan (1998), the syntactic priming effect increases when not only a syntactic structure between sentences is repeated, but also when the same verb in the prime and in the target sentences is used. This study was based on research carried out by Segaert et al. (2012, 2013). A reading task created by Kuerten et al. (2016) was applied to children from 10 to 12 years old regularly enrolled in public schools linked to the ACERTA Project (Evaluation of Children at Risk of Learning Disorder), from Brain Institute in Rio Grande do Sul. The present study investigated: a) reading fluency of 5th and 6th grade Elementary School students; B) if the repetition of the passive voice structure promotes the syntactic priming effect; and c) reading compreension. The performance of 126 Elementary School children from 5th and 6th grades, which were divided between good and poor readers, was compared. The results pointed out that 6th grade children read more words per minute than 5th grade ones, but that the reading fluency is below the expected for both grades. Both good and poor readers have shown syntactic priming effects on passive sentence comprehension, which is an evidence that the passive voice is a complex structure for children from 10 to 12 years old and that previews exposure benefits structure processing. However, 6th grade good readers showed less effect, indicating that the syntactic priming effect for sentences in passive voice might not happen once their linguistic skills improve. Besides contributing to research related to reading and syntactic processing, the present study calls our attention to problems in the development of reading outcomes in school years succeeding the literacy phase.