2018-05-162018-05-152018-05-162018-03-29SILVA, Angélita dos Santos Conceição. A Compreensão leitora de alunos do 8º ano a partir de um projeto de leitura com o gênero discursivo notícia. 2018. 197 f. Dissertação (Mestrado) - Universidade Federal do Pará, Instituto de Letras e Comunicação, Belém, 2018. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Mestrado Profissional em Letras em Rede Nacional. Disponível em: <http://repositorio.ufpa.br/jspui/handle/2011/9855>. Acesso em:.https://repositorio.ufpa.br/handle/2011/9855The present study consists of a theoretical and practical investigation on the reading proficiency of 8th grade students at elementary school, starting from a work that deals with the news discursive genre. The research hypothesis is that, if students take part in a pedagogical reading project, based on the methodological guidelines by Lopes-Rossi (2008), which provides them the reading of concrete statements as regards the news genre, they are able to develop some skills, increasing their level of reading proficiency. In these terms, the general objective of this investigation is to reflect on the reading comprehension levels of 8th grade students throughout the reading project aforementioned, which focuses on the news discursive genre. Thus, the specific objectives are: a) to observe which text processing strategies these 8th grade students can comprehend while reading news genre texts; b) to verify if students understand the implicit knowledge in the text; c) to observe if, starting from linguistic-enunciative marks, students can construct meanings as regards the text. In the light of Applied Linguistics, this research, associated to the Project of Research Practices of Language and Teacher Training, at the Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Campus of Castanhal, is correlated to the dialogical conception of language, relying on Bakhtin Circle theorists and researchers who follow such field of study. It is characterized as an action-research, qualitative-interpretative, of ethnographic and applied nature, carried out at a public state school, in Belém, Pará, Brazil. As a means of answering the question of how the work with the news genre, developed within a pedagogical intervention based on the methodology of projects proposed by Lopes-Rossi (2008), can contribute to the development of the reading competence of these 8th grade elementary students, we first performed a class’ diagnosis, implementing a reading activity with concrete statements of the news discursive genre, so as to verify the students’ reading comprehension level. Then, based on the diagnosis made, we elaborated a proposal of pedagogical intervention with the aforementioned gender and implemented it in a group of 8th grade elementary students. Thereafter, we selected the written responses of ten participants, as a representative sample of the answers given to ten questions – in order to qualitatively analyze their reading comprehension level. The results showed that, after the intervention, the students were able to understand essential text processing strategies for comprehending the statements. Therefore, they reflected on the textual component, identified the explicit information, inferred the implicit ones, rebuilt their processes and produced meanings to the utterance, presenting abilities that are characteristic of the levels of literal and inferential comprehension. Besides that, they noticed the meaning effect produced by choosing and using of a particular linguistic-enunciative mark, inferring the discursive intentionality of the enunciator. Overall, most students expanded their reading, in order to reach the meaning of the text, producing personal answers, denoting interpretative comprehension skills. We conclude that the implementation of the Reading Pedagogical Project with the News Discursive Genre contributed to the development of the reading competence of 8th grade students, increasing their level of reading proficiency.Acesso AbertoLeitura (Elementar)Análise linguística (Linguística)Gêneros literáriosDissertaçãoCNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LINGUISTICA::LINGUISTICA APLICADALINGUAGENS E LETRAMENTOS