Metainferência: uma proposta para a leitura de textos multimodais na escola

Abstract

This research investigates the relation between the exposition of inferences and the students’ levels in proficiency and critical reading of texts. Having that in mind, we anchor ourselves in Vargas (2012, 2015, 2017, 2018), which studies inferences on the creation of something previously inexistent based on the link between prior knowledge and selected information from a text. We resort to Kleiman (2001) to justify our choice on working with inferences, as for the author it’s the inferences we make while reading that we retain in memory and not literal information. It is also fundamental to discuss what we understand by meta-inference, which, for Díaz (2003), is the reflection on the inferential process. Regarding the methodology, we analyzed a conducted intervention made in a third-year high school class at a public school in the city of Bagé, through a WebQuest, an internet-oriented research on the representation of women in mutimodal texts, especially music and video clips. The choice of this thematic is related to the objective of the research, that students have a critic reading. Besides that, although the advances, it is possible perceive that woman faces oppression in our society and the understanding how she is represented in midia, helps to understand this oppression. The results show that the students began to use their previous knowledge in relation to the text, in addition to perceiving the role of establishing goals and hypotheses for reading. In addition, students were able to speak explicitly about inferences and evaluate when questions are inferential or not; this indicates that the work with the explanation of inferences helped on augmenting the students proficiency. There has been a change on their concept of text, which has been expanded. The students began to perceive other possibilities of text, not only the written or verbal, which extended the idea of mutimodal text, that conjugates different semioses. Finally, the students showed greater criticality in relation to the themed work, representation of the woman, as well as the number of inferential answers increased. Despite the positive results found, it was possible to perceive that these could be amplified by a continuous work with the meta-inference in reading. In addition to the changes in relation to reading, it was possible to perceive a change in relation to the behavior with the colleagues, we were able to build a community, in which the students learned to listen and to respect.