Relaciones entre la lectura de textos de opinión y el desarrollo de la inferencia en estudiantes del grado décimo de las Instituciones Educativas Las Nieves y Jesús María Valle Jaramillo

Abstract

In this paper is reported the research called Relationships between the reading of opinion texts and the development of inference in tenth grade students from Las Nieves Educational Institutions -IELN- and Jesús María Valle Jaramillo -JMVJ- in the City of Medellin. The intention of this study was to recognize the development of inference in an experimental group in the IELN compared with a control group in the IEJMVJ from the use of didactic sequences by applying the opinion essay, taking as a diagnosis the results students got in the test Saber 9° issued by the Synthetic Index of Quality in Education (ISCE) 2016. When reviewing them, a low level of inferential reading performance was confirmed in students, which was complemented with what was experienced in the classroom when students asked again and again what they are supposed to do when the orientation has been given several times and in different ways, or when they are asked to anticipate some part of a reading and they scarcely repeat literally the first lines of the text they read. As this situation is common to 10th grade students in both institutions, to overcome this difficulty, some didactic sequences were designed and applied, taking the opinion essay as base reading.