O papel da categoria conhecimento nos processos de compreensão leitora

Alessandra Baldo

doi:10.5433/2237-4876.2007v10n2p27

The role of knowledge category in the reading comprehension process

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Alessandra Baldo UFPel

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https://doi.org/10.5433/2237-4876.2007v10n2p27

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Reading Comprehension, Word knowledge, Domain Knowledge, Reading Strategies

Abstract

Perfetti et al (1996) classify the reading comprehension components in two main categories: the process and the knowledge categories. Lexical processes, working memory capacity, inference making and comprehension monitoring are situated in the first one, whereas word knowledge and domain knowledge are placed in the second one. This paper aims at showing the relevance of the types of knowledge that make up the second category to the overall reading comprehension process. In order to do so, the strategies used by adult readers with high reading scores were compared with the strategies used by adult readers with low reading scores, while answering vocabulary-related items of a reading test.

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Alessandra Baldo, UFPel

Possui graduação em Letras pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (1995), mestrado em Letras pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (2000) e doutorado em Letras - habilitação em Lingüística Aplicada pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (2006), com doutorado-sanduíche na Northern Arizona University, EUA, sob supervisão do Prof. William Grabe. Atualmente é professora da Universidade Federal de Pelotas, UFPEL, Brasil.

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2007-12-15

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BALDO, Alessandra. The role of knowledge category in the reading comprehension process. Signum: Estudos da Linguagem, [S. l.], v. 10, n. 2, p. 27–44, 2007. DOI: 10.5433/2237-4876.2007v10n2p27. Disponível em: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/signum/article/view/3727. Acesso em: 27 jan. 2026.

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Vol. 10 No. 2 (2007): Volume Atemático

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