Abstract

CARRANZA, Miriam; CELAYA, Gabriela; HERRERA, Julio A. D.  and  CAREZZANO, Fernando J.. A Way of Processing Scientific Textbooks Information and its Influence on Comprehension. REDIE [online]. 2004, vol.6, n.1, pp.01-15. ISSN 1607-4041.

Students who are fit to cope with academic discourse develop cognitive and metacognitive skills that enable them to understand information contained in scientific textbooks and therefore improve their learning process. This study evaluates reading comprehension abilities and deficiencies of a group of university students by analysing a fragment of a scientific text used in one of the subjects. Results show the most frequent difficulties to process information and understand while reading. The group included students with reading comprehension abilities as well as novice readers, unskilled to control and evaluate their own reading process.

Keywords : Information; texts; comprehension; higher education.