Vol. 2 No. 2 (2024): Revista de Investigación Educativa, Intervención Pedagógica y Docencia
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Reading comprehension and word learning through reading

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  • Susana Isabel Gutiérrez Sánchez,
  • Ana Luisa González Reyes
Susana Isabel Gutiérrez Sánchez
Departamento de Estudios en Educación, Universidad de Guadalajara
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Ana Luisa González Reyes
Departamento de Estudios en Educación, Universidad de Guadalajara
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.71770/rieipd.v2i2.2540

Published 2024-07-05

Keywords

  • verbal learning;,
  • reading;,
  • text comprehension;,
  • vocabulary

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Reading comprehension and word learning through reading. (2024). Revista De Investigación Educativa, Intervención Pedagógica Y Docencia, 2(2), 59-76. https://doi.org/10.71770/rieipd.v2i2.2540

Abstract

Reading has been shown to be an important source of vocabulary acquisition; however, it is proposed that
in order for pupils to learn words efficiently while reading, they should be skilled comprehenders. The
purpose of this research is to determine the influence of reading comprehension skills on the ability to learn
new words while reading. Two tests were applied to a sample of 102 fourth-grade students: a standardized
test of sentence comprehension, comprehension of a text in silence and comprehension of a text aloud,
and a self-created test of word learning while reading. Subsequently, the scores were analyzed through the
statistical techniques of correlation and hierarchical regression to observe the effect of a skill on another.
Children's comprehension of texts read aloud was found to be the most significant predictor of the ability
to learn words. Unlike previous research, this study focuses on Spanish-speaking children’s learning and it
uses pseudowords as stimuli.

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