Resumo

FLORES MACIAS, Rosa del Carmen; JIMENEZ GONZALEZ, Juan Eugenio  e  GARCIA MIRANDA, Eduardo. Teenagers Poor Readers: Evaluation of Basic Cognitive Process. REDIE [online]. 2015, vol.17, n.2, pp.34-47. ISSN 1607-4041.

The present study aims to investigate the cognitive processes associated with reading difficulties of teenage poor readers. Several studies suggest that this population presents a poor comprehension, despite reading the words properly and have good phonological skills (wich distinguishes them from a population with dyslexia). With a comparative cross-sectional design the Sicole-R multimedia battery, wich assesses basic cognitive processes related to reading, was applied to participants. Results indicate that poor reader students exhibit a lower performance than normal readers in phonological awareness, orthographic processing and processing syntax, although only the latter comparison was statistically significant.

Palavras-chave : Reading; Reading comprehension difficulties; teenagers.