Hipertexto y comprensión lectora. Efectos del formato hipertextual y la competencia lectora en la comprensión y la memoria textual

Abstract

Reading comprehension depends largely on the processing of textual information and its memories during the act of reading but also after it. This information processing can be influenced by various factors, some previous reader itself and other external to it that can not only affect the process of reading, but also processing quality of the content. In the following study we considered the influence of the textual format, text linear compared to hypertext, on the understanding and the short and long term remembering of a given text content to a sample of children in the fifth grade of primary education. In parallel, we analyze whether the level of reading literacy of children, evaluated prior to this study, as well as their frequency of Internet connection at home, influence their results in reading comprehension and textual both short and long term memory.