Propuesta metodológica para el mejoramiento de la comprensión lectora a través del uso de herramientas cognitivas mediadas por el computador, en estudiantes que cursan la materia Habilidades Comunicativas en la Universidad de Pamplona.

Abstract

Reading and writing are issues of great importance in the life of every human being and still more in all educational institutions, responsible for these, learners learning at local, regional, national and international levels; since, with major scientific and technological advances both teachers and students must meet these challenges which show great information.

Indeed, educational institutions should plan and project in their classrooms learning a new awareness of the new languages of the media and information and communications technology in the context of an increasingly mediated society, which affects the lives of students. Technological development places man in a new paradigm of education that leads to new methodologies and new teaching roles now focused on the design and management of activities and learning environments. Therefore, it is appropriate to provide for this research, cognitive tools that can be used by teachers and students in order to enhance understanding, interpretation and text production.

Research projects into the use and application of concept maps, semantic maps, summary tables and mentefactos as cognitive tools to reach the reading comprehension and text production; the starting point of the research is to offer strategies that meet the educational contexts for students to read the contents of structured texts and thus achieve greater knowledge.

The study was conducted from cognitive approach - social constructivist, with a model of strategic and metacognitive learning; for it, it was designed and a methodology that would help to improve reading comprehension and develop the interpretive, argumentative and purposeful skills that every professional should possess a high degree to be more competent in the labor field was applied.

To achieve the stated objective, we started from expository texts to be addressed in the educational context and be in the TI platform Aula of the University of Pamplona; also because they allowed the structure and organization of knowledge in the learner through the developmentof semantic maps, concept maps, summary tables and mentefactos to reach the reading, also the development of workshops in which learners agreed to Various sources of information; through consultations on issues related to literacy, school texts, reading comprehension, cognitive tools, semantic maps, concept maps, summary tables and mentefactos among others.

The methods used to achieve the results of this study were theoretical in terms of the different conceptions of the subject; which allowed to interpret the thought of exponents studied from the point of view investigated; Also essential were the results of diagnosis, only refer to the most transcendental in this method throughout the work.