Abstract

PEREZ LOPEZ, María Nélida. Prior knowledge and outline of an argumentative text. Folios [online]. 2013, n.37, pp.03-15. ISSN 0123-4870.

This article gives an account of an investigation that was geared towards determining the correlation between previous knowledge and the reading comprehension of an argumentative text in students who are beginning their college studies. Both determined the level of relative knowledge of two topics in a posterior reading of an article, as well as the level of adjustment and precision to the macropropositions (thesis, arguments and conclusion) of the scheme and the summary elaborated from the article. The results indicate that there was no correlation between the suitable and precise identification of the ideas and the level of knowledge. Finally, the incidence of some factors is analyzed, for example the reference to the context model from which the students assumed the understanding process.

Keywords : reading; summary; prior knowledge; argumentative text.

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