Abstract

RESUMO Este estudo investiga relações entre capacidade da memória de trabalho (CMT), proficiência leitora e processamento de informações verbais e pictoriais na leitura em inglês como língua estrangeira (ILE). A amostra investigada foi composta por sessenta estudantes brasileiros de ensino médio entre 15-17 anos (M =16.3, SD. = 64). Os instrumentos de coleta de dados incluíram: um questionário de experiências prévias, um teste de proficiência leitora em ILE, um teste de CMT, um teste de compreensão leitora, e um questionário retrospectivo. As análises indicaram uma correlação positiva entre as variáveis independentes (i.e., proficiência leitora em ILE e CMT), e associações significativas entre cada uma dessas variáveis com a variável dependente (i.e., compreensão leitora). Os resultados indicaram que: (1) limitações da CMT podem restringir o processamento de textos expositivos não ilustrados; (2) limitações em proficiência em ILE tendem a comprometer a eficiência do processamento de informações pictoriais; (3) limitações da CMT no processamento de informações pictoriais parecem ser compensadas pela ativação de informações do conhecimento prévio.

Highlights

  • Reading comprehension, from a language processing perspective, comprises an array of cognitive processes whose implementation enables individuals to construct textual mental representations

  • The present study aims at expanding these findings by investigating the processing and storage of verbal and pictorial information executed by working memory (WM) in English as a foreign language (EFL) reading

  • We present descriptive statistics for the EFL Reading Proficiency Test, the Reading Span Test (RST), and the Reading Comprehension Test

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Introduction

From a language processing perspective, comprises an array of cognitive processes whose implementation enables individuals to construct textual mental representations. It seems possible to speculate that the Central Executive of Baddeley’s WM model would be the subsystem responsible for the execution of these interconnections, given its inherent functions to manage processing and storage in the Phonological Loop, in the Visual-Spatial Sketchpad, and to bind and storage of multidimensional representations in the Episodic Buffer (BADDELEY, 2010) Based on this body of propositions, the DCT was included in the theoretical framework of this study because it brings clearer explanations on the simultaneous processing of verbal and pictorial information in memory. The controlling idea that guides the rationale of this study is that individuals depend on proficient reading and on enough cognitive resources to break the barriers imposed by the metaphors so commonly present in cartoons

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