Abstract

MATEUS FERRO, Geral Eduardo; RINCON CAMACHO, Lida Johanna  and  ROMAN GONZALEZ, Jenny Viviana. Effects of the Complexity and Presence of Subtitles in Expository Texts on Undergraduate Students' Reading Comprehension. Folios [online]. 2019, n.50, pp.51-64. ISSN 0123-4870.  https://doi.org/10.17227/folios.50-10177.

In this article, the results of a comparative descriptive study carried out with 32 undergraduate students are exposed, whose objective was to examine the mental representation of an expository text after its reading and the influence of the degree of complexity and the presence or absence of subtitles on reading comprehension. The difference in the complexity of the texts is based on the use of specialized lexicon. The main result is that the mental representation of the students contains more information coming from the text base when the complexity is greater; in the case of less complex texts, the information corresponding to the situation model predominates, especially the associative inferences.

Keywords : reading comprehension; cognitive processes; situation model; text base; mental representation.

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