Resumo

BASSAREWAN, Aicha Binte Umar  e  SILVESTRE, Simone Michelle. O ensino e a aprendizagem da leitura nos primeiros anos da escolaridade em Timor-Leste. Educ. Pesqui. [online]. 2010, vol.36, n.02, pp.491-504. ISSN 1517-9702.

East Timor is a new country of the third millennium. Having a society of oral tradition and a predominantly illiterate population, East Timor faces many challenges in the era of globalization. Given the importance of reading for the lives of human beings, Timorese children should be taught to read since the early years of schooling and in doing so the sociocultural and linguistic reality of the country should be taken into account. With a case study in Public School Number 1 Nularan, in Dili, East Timor, on teaching and learning to read in the first three years of schooling, it was observed that both the guidelines of the curriculum and the reference books used by the school to work with students do not foster the development of reflective reading nor offer opportunities for children to express their ideas or communicate using texts for group discussions. Thus, we suggest constant monitoring and evaluation of the teaching and learning to read process in primary schools and investment both in human resources training and in the improvement of teaching materials and school infrastructure. It is not enough to mention education in the Constitution and laws: the important thing is that competent authorities take action to deliver quality education to the East Timorese as active subjects in inventions and knowledge so that they have access to better lives for themselves and for the communities which they belong to.

Palavras-chave : East Timor; Nularan School; Teaching / Learning; Reading.

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