REPERTOIRE OF STRATEGIES FOR READING UNDERSTANDING OF ACADEMIC TEXTS BY HIGHER EDUCATION STUDENTS

The present study presents as its theme the repertoire of strategies for reading comprehension of academic texts. This is a descriptive research with a quantitative approach. The aim of this research was to investigate the perception of beginning and final-year students of the Pedagogy, Literature and Law courses at a University in the North of Parana in relation to the frequency with which they use strategies to carry out the activity of reading academic texts with a view to reading comprehension. A total of 274 students answered a Likert-type scale about reading strategies (KOPKE FILHO, 2001), composed of twenty items about the strategies used before, during and after reading. The data analysis indicated that there were significant differences between the averages for beginning and final course participants, which needs to be better investigated and highlights the need for effective teaching of reading strategies throughout these courses.