Reading: An overview prior to reading comprehension

Autores/as

  • Edison Boanerges Peñafiel Arcos Universidad Politécnica Estatal del Carchi (UPEC) Centro de Idiomas Extranjeros y Lenguas Nativas CIDEN

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32645/13906925.256

Palabras clave:

reading, language, understanding, reader, reading comprehension, pre-reading, while-reading, post-reading, strategies.

Resumen

Reading comprehension is defined as the level of understanding of a text/message. This understanding comes from the interaction between the words that are written and how they trigger knowledge outside the text/message. Another important component of reading comprehension is the activation of prior knowledge or making connections while reading. So, Readers must be able to draw from their experiences to apply what they are reading. If a student is not able to activate the schema necessary for a specific piece of text, his or her comprehension will be either distorted or greatly hindered.  For decades, a great amount of studies have been done to investigate the influences of reading strategies on readers"™ comprehension. It has no longer been considered as a static and passive process in decoding words and recoding meanings of individual words or phrases. Instead, reading comprehension has been deemed as an active, dynamic, and growing process of searching for interrelationships in a text. In this context, this research presents those fundamentals that readers bring to the text, the factors that affect reading, as well as the reading phases and their supportive strategies.

Biografía del autor/a

  • Edison Boanerges Peñafiel Arcos, Universidad Politécnica Estatal del Carchi (UPEC) Centro de Idiomas Extranjeros y Lenguas Nativas CIDEN

    Magister en Educación y Desarrollo Social por la Universidad Tecnológica Equinoccial, Quito. Ingeniero de Empresas por la Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, Ambato. Licenciado en Administración de Empresas Privadas por la Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito. Licenciado en Ciencias de la Educación Especialidad Inglés, por la Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja. Actualmente está cursando la Maestría en Lingͼística Aplicada a la Enseñanza del idioma Inglés en la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Ibarra. Obtuvo el First Certifícate in English Council of Europe Level B2 por la Universidad de Cambridge. Autor del texto Interactive Working Techniques in an EFL Class. Ha laborado en Arthur Andersen & Co., Consultora Industrial, Productos el Chinito Cía. Ltda., Fundación Sara Espíndola, C.C. Jardín del Norte, Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito Tulcán. Docente Titular TC Agregado en la Universidad Politécnica Estatal del Carchi desde 2009.

Publicado

2018-06-20

Número

Sección

EDUCACIÓN Y HUMANIDADES

Cómo citar

Reading: An overview prior to reading comprehension. (2018). SATHIRI, 4, 317-328. https://doi.org/10.32645/13906925.256