RT Journal Article
T1 The role of text characteristics in the reading  comprehension of primary school children in Spanish
T2 El papel de las características textuales en la comprensión lectora de alumnado de Educación Primaria en lengua española
A1 Míguez Álvarez, Carla María
A1 Cuevas Alonso, Miguel
A1 Saavedra González, Maria Angeles
A1 Cabanach, Ramón G.
K1 5899 Otras Especialidades Pedagógicas
K1 5701 Lingüística Aplicada
AB During the early grades of primary school, texts are mainly narrative and focus on technical aspects such as decoding words and  understanding simple syntax. However, from 4th grade onwards, texts become increasingly more difficult and expository texts  become the main source of knowledge from which children will have to extract and learn new information while creating their mental model. This article examined the influences of two main text characteristics: text genre and level of representation (text base and  mental model), in the reading comprehension scores of 313 Spanish primary school children aged 8 to 11 to study the relationship between these variables as well as the differences between grades. Comprehension of each text genre was assessed through a validated multiple-choice questionnaire and each variable was compared through a series of correlational methods, such as Pearson’s correlation, Spearman’s rho and ANOVAs. The results showed that all grades obtained significant higher scores on the text base than the mental model but only the expository texts exhibited better results when passing from 4th to 5th and 6th grade. This study  provides findings that may contribute to the topic of literacy education during primary school.
PB Revista Iberoamericana de Psicología y Salud
SN 21712069
YR 2022
FD 2022-01
LK http://hdl.handle.net/11093/4087
UL http://hdl.handle.net/11093/4087
LA eng
NO Revista Iberoamericana de Psicología y Salud, 13(1): 41-55 (2022)
DS Investigo
RD 18-sep-2024