O ALUNO DA ESCOLA RURAL: A INFLUÊNCIA DO CONTEXTO NO DESENVOLVIMENTO DAS PRÁTICAS DE LEITURA.

Abstract

This research was done focusing on the following problems: does the rural school students context contributes with the development of their reading practices? What are the influences of the school and family conditions on their reading practices? How does the mediation of the teacher influences in the active relation between the pupils and the reading? In which form does the familiar and the school context influence on the reading practice and on the written productions of the rural school students? With the support of the historic-cultural theory by Vygotsky, the beginning dialogic, the Sociolinguistic and the contextual Linguistic, an inquiry was made checking the quality by means of a bibliographical research, document analysis and field research. The field research was made at a Rural School, with students attending the final years of high school, their parents and teachers. To collect the data in the field, the semi structuralized interview and the teach- used. The main objective of this research was to investigate the influence of the sociocultural context of the Rural School students in the development of their reading practices. The analysis tried to interpret and explain the practices of reading and writing of the students, considering elements of their social and cultural context as well as of the school context. The final results show that the Rural School researched has a great concern with the reading combined with communication and the social interaction of the students; the juvenile literary book was the one mostly used by the teacher for the students reading practices; the teachers job in the lesson was based on the understanding of the text along with the interaction process, then reaching the students; the students showed a mixture of influences in their reading and writing practices. Among the influences of the familiar sociocultural context highlights the parents belief, and also of the students themselves, that the school is a place to acquire knowledge and the standard behavior demanded to the future professional worker of the city. Therefore, it represents a possibility of social ascension and it must be valued as a place of opportunities, showing respect to the employees, to the oldest, obeying rules and the reproduction of discipline. Among the influences of the school sociocultural context highlights the reading and the increase of the léxico giving ways to the students overcome the common sense. As far as the relationship between the students and the reading two main aspects were found: 1) the reading is seen by the students as a task proposed by the teacher, done through defined

changes; 2) even being stimulated by their parents and teachers, reading to the students is not something they like, having to be added to other context of their day by day activities. One concludes that by the limitations of this research characterized by the historical and sociocultural singularity of the searched school does not allow surpassing its results to other contexts of a rural school. However, it helps understanding that the students sociocultural context from a rural school, where they do not have other mediators such as internet, the news etc., the reading and the book continue being privileged mediator for the students development.