"Reading Subtitles Skills in the Elementary School"

Reading Comprehension Clinical Trial

Official title:

"Reading Subtitles Skills in the Elementary School"

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01012986
• Other study ID #: reading subtitles in Brazil
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: November 12, 2009
• Last updated: November 12, 2009

Study information

• Verified date: November 2009
• Source: University of Sao Paulo
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Brazil: National Council of Health
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Theme: The reading of fixed texts in school are widely known, however it is not known how they read texts furniture and what skills are required for this type of reading.

Objective: To evaluate the skills of reading film subtitles in students of 2nd and 4th grade of elementary school of a Public School.

Method: Review the level and skills of reading movies subtitles (RMS), through the recounting of a section of film watched, alone, mute and legend, for 60 students (30 2nd grade and 30 of the 4th grade) matched for age and gender.

Description:

The purpose of this study was to compare the reading film subtitles skills in students aged 2nd and 4th grade of elementary school (EF) from a public school, and relate the performance of literacy in school with reading film subtitles.

Proceedings: The study included 30 students from 2nd and 30 from 4th grade of a public school at Sao Paulo. The participants' ages ranged from 7 years and 8 months to 9 years and 3 months in the 2nd grade, and 9 years and 9 months to 11 years and one month in the 4th grade. The groups were matched for the genre.

Inclusion criteria: sign a consent to search, be literate, do not have any sensory changes, and never repeated a grade. Each subject, individually, was rated about the level of literacy and reading through the protocol of school literacy; and about reading film subtitles skills.Each subject recounted what he understood and responded to five inferential questions about the movie.The recount was analyzed and scored on a specific protocol based on Castillo (1999).Students could score in four levels: decoding, literal comprehension, comprehension independent and critical reading.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 60
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 7 Years to 9 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• sign a consent to search

• be literate

• do not have any sensory changes

• and never repeated a grade

Study Design

Observational Model: Cohort, Time Perspective: Cross-Sectional

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Reading Comprehension

Intervention

Other:
• Assessment of reading skills

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Brazil	University of Sao Paulo	São Paulo
Brazil	University of São Paulo	São Paulo

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Sao Paulo

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Brazil,