A relação entre crenças e práticas de leitura acadêmica dos alunos de Secretariado Executivo da Universidade Federal de Sergipe (UFS)

Abstract

The theme of this study was the beliefs and practices of academic reading, in view of this, it was investigated: what is the relationship between the beliefs and practices of academic reading of the students of the Executive Secretarial of the Federal University of Sergipe (UFS)?Thus, the general objective was to investigate the relationship between the beliefs and academic reading practices of these students. The study started from a theoretical survey about beliefs and reading practices andhas a qualitative approach with a descriptive nature.A semi-structured interview was carried out with three students from the 2018 class of the Executive Secretariat course by Google Meet. It was observed that the interviewees believed that they were encouraged to read during graduation by the professors, but there were other factors which frustrated and discouraged the academics who could not understand reading, such as excessive formality, jargon, fancy language, dense reading, as well as like lack of time.It is also concluded that reading practices are predominantly influenced by beliefs.