Implementación procesos metacognitivos en el mejoramiento de la comprensión e interpretación textual de los estudiantes de décimo grado en la Institución Educativa San Francisco de Sales.

Abstract

The main goal of this research project is the improvement of the levels of comprehension and interpretation of a in the tenth grade students from the Institución Educativa San Francisco de Sales. Thanks to this investigation, the students will be able to fully reach and understand the context of the different kind of texts they face on their daily studies, without ignoring the implicit aspects that lie underneath said texts. To achieve this first stage of the investigation, the main point of depart was the evidence collected though a diagnostic test, and after the constant analysis and description of those evidences, the research project moved onto the design of a pedagogical material , that fully understood the contextual and educational needs of the concrete population of the investigation and this process was able to demostrate a real, solid improvement in the way students stablished a relationship with the text- During an academic period, thanks to an arduous and constant work, the project aimed for the improvement of the reading ability in the focus group students through metacognitive strategies, a concept proposed by Flavell in the late twentieth century. This concept emphatizes the need to make the reading subjects fully aware of their mental processes so they can monitor and control their own thinking, or in this case, the readings they make, of which each individual is receptor of. With the intention to achieve this task, a whole compendium of pedagogical didactic material was designed, not only with readings but with support activities that allowed the students to make an effective use of their prior knowledges to use them during the reading along with reflection excercises that inquired on the relevance and the contributions those readings offered to their schooling process. Given the humanistic perspective of this research project, the approach was qualitative in nature, had a target population of 88 tenth grade students and held weekly meetings that allowed the application of each of the instruments to make a constant follow-up.