Considerations on the establishment of an instrument of virtual research to investigate the textual consciousness in teaching the genre short story

Abstract

In this article, teaching and learning are intercrossed in the development of a research instrument for Psycholinguistics and teaching reading. Psycholinguistics the study of connections between language and the space between mind and studies on the language perceived by the angle of cognition in relation to the processing of reading comprehension and writing production. In this perspective, studies on the reading and writing teaching investigate the textual consciousness of readers to verify to what extent this cognitive process takes place. In this perspective, this paper proposes the analysis of a survey instrument that investigates the textual consciousness of the genre short story, taking into account the different linguistic elements that make up the text and establish relations with the context. To investigate the textual awareness of the short story, it is proposed to focus on lexical and grammatical cohesion and on the textual coherence and superstructure. The target audience for which it is the research instrument are Portuguese teachers working in different school systems of basic education. It is hoped that the answers to the instrument can point out how is the process of reading comprehension of those who teach reading a literary text in school.