A coesão textual como ferramenta para compreensão de textos em língua inglesa

Fábio Henrique Rosa Senefonte

doi:10.5433/1679-0383.2013v34n2p215

Text cohesion as a tool for text comprehension in English

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Fábio Henrique Rosa Senefonte Howard University (Washington DC, USA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5433/1679-0383.2013v34n2p215

Keywords:

Text cohesion, Text comprehension, English language.

Abstract

This research is based on the assumptions that the meaning of the text is constructed by the reader and for this to happen, it is required the activation of several skills, including the mastery of cohesive mechanisms (HALLIDAY; HASAN, 1976; KOCH, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2008; MARCUSCHI, 2008). Thus, the paper aims at illustrating in a practical way how the knowledge of reading strategies (instrumental reading), especially, cohesion mechanisms helps the comprehension of texts in English as a foreign language. For that purpose, it was selected some news taken from the newspaper “The New York Times.” Under this perspective, through an instrumental reading approach (TODA, 2010), this procedure proved that the construction of meaning (comprehension) of the text was possible thanks to the activation of several skills about reading strategies, including the knowledge of text cohesion.

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Author Biography

Fábio Henrique Rosa Senefonte, Howard University (Washington DC, USA

Master in the Study of Language (in research teaching, learning and teacher education foreign language line) Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL). He is currently a Fulbright scholar, serving as assistant professor of English language at Howard University (Washington DC, USA) (2013-2014) and graduate student at the same university, taking courses in the departments of Communication, Social Sciences and Education.

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Published

2013-12-24

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SENEFONTE, Fábio Henrique Rosa. Text cohesion as a tool for text comprehension in English. Semina: Ciências Sociais e Humanas, [S. l.], v. 34, n. 2, p. 215–228, 2013. DOI: 10.5433/1679-0383.2013v34n2p215. Disponível em: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/seminasoc/article/view/14954. Acesso em: 21 nov. 2024.

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Vol. 34 No. 2 (2013)

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