Perfiles de estudiantes universitarios con dificultades lectoras en el aprendizaje del español como lengua extranjera

This research is confined to the analysis of the silent reading fluency and its role in the identification of reading profiles with difficulties among a population of adult and university learners who learn Spanish as a foreign language. The objective of this study is to understand how the development of the silent reading fluency —the main activity on expert readers— intervenes with reading comprehension and which is their causal relationship, that is, to a better understanding of the learning process of Spanish as a foreign language and to an identification of profiles of learners with reading comprehension difficulties in higher education. The main hypothesis of this research work lies in the premise that, in the first year of higher education, a significant number of learners of foreign languages still have difficulties in silent reading fluency, which hampers a good reading comprehension. The source of these difficulties can come, in part, from the transfer of reading sub-skills from L1 to L2 or certain cognitive aspects. The main objective of this study aims to show that understanding the relation of competences in the analysis of silent reading fluency in non-native university learners, both young and adult, could help in the identification of their reading profiles and the elements that have a negative performance in the comprehension of silent read texts. This understanding would assist on the elaboration of educational intervention programs according to their needs. Our group of study will be constituted by European university students who learn Spanish as a second language and hold a level A1+, A2 or B1 according to CEFR (2002).

Jaar van publicatie:2020

Toegankelijkheid:Open