Compreensão leitora e consciência textual : um estudo sobre uma proposta de atividades para pacientes psiquiátricos internados

Abstract

This current research is inserted in the area of Psycholinguistics and aimed to organize reading activities, focusing in reading comprehension and textual awareness, in what it refers to coherence – maintenance and thematic progression, suggested to psychiatric inpatients. Literary texts (chronicles) with narrative sequences are used in these activities. Seitz (2006) says that reading in a hospital environment helps to keep the hospital internment less painful and aggressive, because the patient can verbalize his problems, besides it the patient feels less anxiety, monotony and fear that come from internment hospital. According to Onocko Campos et al (2013), narrative sequences texts are showed as appropriate texts to be used in activities with psychiatric inpatients, because on those kinds of texts there are chronological time, characters and plot, these aspects show the textual verisimilitude. Through the understanding of these theories, the perceptions of the applicators, that work on the reading project in the psychiatric ward, the health professionals, which also work in this place, the Psycholinguistics professionals and from the findings obtained by the data it is shown the purpose, the feasibility, the new linguistic directions and the good acceptance of these suggested activities in the promotion of the psychiatric inpatients well-being.