Crenças e práticas de leitura acadêmica dos alunos de secretariado executivo da Universidade Federal de Sergipe (UFS)

Abstract

The objective of this study was to investigate and describe the relationship between beliefs and practices of academic reading of students of Executive Secretariat of UFS. The study starts from a theoretical survey about beliefs and reading practices, being a research of descriptive nature, since it describes the beliefs about academic reading and reading practices of students and has a qualitative approach. The data collection technique used was semi-structured interviews conducted with three students from the class of 2018 of the Executive Secretary course through Google Meets In the results, it was observed that the interviewees believed they were encouraged to read during graduation by their professors, but there were other factors that frustrated and demotivated the academics who could not understand the reading, such as excessive formality, jargon, difficult language, dense reading, as well as lack of time. It was also concluded that there is a relationship of influence between beliefs and academic reading practices, in which the latter is predominantly influenced by the former; however, there are cases in which the practice also influences the belief.