Abstract

MORENO CASTRO, Jairo Aníbal; AYALA SAENZ, Rafael; DIAZ PARDO, Juan Carlos  and  VASQUEZ GARCIA, César Augusto. READING PRACTICES: COMPREHENSION AND ASSESSMENT. TENDENCIES, STATUS, AND PROJECTIONS. Forma funcion, Santaf, de Bogot, D.C. [online]. 2010, vol.23, n.1, pp.145-175. ISSN 0120-338X.

In this article we review, discuss, and systematize fundamental theoretical issues that support the first phase of the investigation "Assessment of reading levels in the context of higher education", developed over the period 2009-2010. The concept of reading, the connections that such a human communicative mode maintains with discursive comprehension, and finally, perspectives and assessment strategies of reading comprehension in institutionalized academic environments are the crosscutting topics of the article. The latter is proposed to pinpoint the state, trends, and conceptual and programmatic projections of such thematic nodes. In order to strengthen the conceptual consistency, facilitate critical understanding and lighten the academic texture of the article, the analysis of the reviewed documents is built around four topics considered as the nuclear conceptual tendencies: 1) the transition from sensory to rational, and from rational to sociocultural transactional, 2) the transition from signified to signifier, and from there to meaning, 3) the transition from textual to intertextual and from thence to contextual (literal, inferential, critical), and 4) the transition from reading as a behavior to reading as a process.

Keywords : academic texts; assessment; cognition; comprehension; reading.

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