The academic text is a conventionally structured and scientifically oriented community product that makes use of a specific set of concepts and vocabulary. This paper aims to establish that, due to such characteristics, academic texts present difficulties for the inexperienced reader as they require specialized reading comprehension. To achieve its goal, this paper presents the results of a diagnostic instrument of freshperson’s reading competence level. The test was conducted on 733 new students from the Universidad Icesi in Cali, Colombia, during the first semester of 2017. Based on the discourse analysis and text-linguistics approach, the test was about an explanatory-argumentative text. On a second stage, the paper reviews the cha...
[EN] This article contains a working proposal for the block of content “Language Knowledge” in the 4...
The need to deal with reading comprehension in disciplinar areas has been pointed out by some resear...
Dentro de los textos académicos más usados por los docentes de Medicina en laCorporación Universitar...
Las habilidades clave de lenguaje académico (HCLA) refieren a “un conjunto de habilidades de lenguaj...
: El presente artículo tiene como objetivo comparar el desempeño de estudiantes que presentan la con...
This paper shows the results obtained when applying a literary-didactical proposal, which was a succ...
The article addresses different practices around the literacy typical of the formation of the field ...
Becoming a university student means entering into a new culture, which is partly shaped by academic&...
This paper reviews forty-two research papers that analyze the progress made by Colombian universitie...
El ingreso al nivel universitario implica la entrada a una nueva cultura, parte de la cual está conf...
En esta investigación hemos estudiado, en alumnos y alumnas de nivel secundario, la comprensión lect...
In the study oriented to the design and implementation of two Online Writing Centers (OWC) in high e...
Este Trabajo de Fin de Grado ha tenido como objetivo analizar la orientación de la enseñanza de la c...
Based on a case study, the tendency of Public Relations students towards the improvement of skills a...
Este artículo tiene como objetivos: (1) describir los niveles de autorregulación y de comprensión le...
[EN] This article contains a working proposal for the block of content “Language Knowledge” in the 4...
The need to deal with reading comprehension in disciplinar areas has been pointed out by some resear...
Dentro de los textos académicos más usados por los docentes de Medicina en laCorporación Universitar...
Las habilidades clave de lenguaje académico (HCLA) refieren a “un conjunto de habilidades de lenguaj...
: El presente artículo tiene como objetivo comparar el desempeño de estudiantes que presentan la con...
This paper shows the results obtained when applying a literary-didactical proposal, which was a succ...
The article addresses different practices around the literacy typical of the formation of the field ...
Becoming a university student means entering into a new culture, which is partly shaped by academic&...
This paper reviews forty-two research papers that analyze the progress made by Colombian universitie...
El ingreso al nivel universitario implica la entrada a una nueva cultura, parte de la cual está conf...
En esta investigación hemos estudiado, en alumnos y alumnas de nivel secundario, la comprensión lect...
In the study oriented to the design and implementation of two Online Writing Centers (OWC) in high e...
Este Trabajo de Fin de Grado ha tenido como objetivo analizar la orientación de la enseñanza de la c...
Based on a case study, the tendency of Public Relations students towards the improvement of skills a...
Este artículo tiene como objetivos: (1) describir los niveles de autorregulación y de comprensión le...
[EN] This article contains a working proposal for the block of content “Language Knowledge” in the 4...
The need to deal with reading comprehension in disciplinar areas has been pointed out by some resear...
Dentro de los textos académicos más usados por los docentes de Medicina en laCorporación Universitar...