Abstract

IRRAZABAL, Natalia; SAUX, Gastón; BURIN, Débora  and  LEON, José Antonio. Assessment of reading comprehension in undergraduate students: the summary. Anu. investig. [online]. 2006, vol.13. ISSN 1851-1686.

The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between summary production and type of text. Summary production implies building a concise and comprehensive representation of the original text (Kintsch & van Dijk, 1975). Previous research has shown the influence of type of text (expositive vs. narrative) in text comprehension (Meyer, 1984; Mc Namara, 2004). In this study, a total of 83 undergraduate students read a narrative and an expository text and later summarized them. Each summary was scored into two scales: content and coherence, and was classified according to its structural organization. Results indicate different scores among scales, with a better performance in content, and show an effect of the type of text on summaries' modality.

Keywords : Summary; Content; Coherence; Text type.

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