Características de los textos, conocimientos previos y comprensión lectora

Abstract

This study was made with a sample of 296 sbjects, of ages between 10 and 17. It was taken into consideration their reading competence (high/low) and their prior knowledge (major/minor), about the subject matter of a text, from which were made eight versions that differed in the presence and number of text organizers; it was measured on the other hand different aspects of reading comprehension. The results shows that the presence of organizers makes easy the reading comprehension of the subjects with a higher reading competence (especially in reference to complementary information and number of deductions) and of the subjects with previous minor knowledge (above all in reference to the number of deductions). These results confirm in what is substantial the obtained by previous investigation, bat shadows them and set up new questions to investigate.