Nontraditional undergraduates’ academic literacy in higher technological courses: evaluating an experience of pedagogic mediation

ABSTRACT This paper is part of a wider research that evaluates an experience of pedagogical mediation for the academic literacy of students regarded as “nontraditional” inhigher technological courses at federal institutes. In this paper, we present the results obtained through reading comprehension tests, interactional protocols, chat diaries, and final questionnaire. Our objective is to show that a mediation based on the concepts of metacognition, as defended by Flavell (1979) and Brown (1987), can help remedy these students’ reading problems, avoiding course dropout.