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concepts of reading, reading and ENEN, reading and teaching mathematics.
This work is part of two articulated fields of knowledge: language sciences and education sciences. It is a research developed toward the purpose to constituting a reflection about reading within the context of largeescale evaluation. Methodologically, the research was characterized by its documental and bibliographic nature and it has defined as its own object of study the underlying conceptions of reading in questions of Mathematics tests of the National High School Exam (ENEM). When it assuming itself a qualitative approach, the investigation adopted some procedures of data interpretation to answer the following guiding question: How do the reading conceptions base the questions in the ENEM Mathematics tests? In order to find possible answers to this questions, the research was dedicated to the methodical observation of corpus made up of statements contained within the items of the ENEM Mathematics tests (1998; 2009; 2014) and within the oficial regulatory texts of this large-scale assessment. As parameters of interpretation, we adoppted the instruments proposed by Bardin (2016), whose contribution is inserted in the content analysis of statements. The theoretical assumptions adopted to support the discussions are based on postulates formulated by Mikhail Bakhtin (2003; 2006), who defends some notions relative to making signified by language, the subject’s effort to understand and to interpret the world as an architectural whole, insofar as verbal interaction, dialogism, subjectivity challenged by history, ideology, and the Other occurs. In this same line of approach, the research adheres to the theoretical contributions in brazilian studies, which ones reflect the bakhtinian fundamentals: Ângela Kleiman (1993), João Wanderley Geraldi (1995), Carlos Alberto Faraco (2010), Roxane Rojo (2011), Smolle and Diniz (2011), Amorim and Barbosa (2014), Araújo and Barbosa (2014) and finally Lima and Noronha (2016), these last four authors researchs focused on the interests of the field of reading in the teaching of Mathematics.