“What the hell is this about the UDEF?” Thus in an interview in Espejo Público Jordi Pujol i Soley responded to the Galician feeling cornered by Susanna Griso 's questions about a Udef report which linked him to corruption schemes. “What the hell is reading and writing?” young university students could also ask themselves surprised and cornered by the deficiencies they have in these two fundamental instrumental activities and competencies. I believe that there are no studies on these skills reading writing critical thinking skills of young high school graduates who arrive at Spanish universities. Now based on my teaching experience at the Autonomous University of Barcelona UAB I can and do affirm that the majority of them arrive with such pronounced linguistic gaps that they call into question both the PAU and the quality of the training. formally accredited by university degrees.
Therefore it cannot be asserted as the “ todologues ” do that today's young Spaniards are the “ JASP Generation ”: the generation of the best and most educated in the history of Spain. That's just an urban legend. To argue these assertions and bring the grist CXB Directory to my mill today we are going to try to answer plagiarizing the Honorable ? Jordi Pujol to the question “What the hell is reading?” And we leave for a future reflection the answer to that other complementary question: “And what the hell is writing?” This is not the first time I analyze reading activity. Elsewhere I have already answered the three questions that André Gide asks about “alphabetists” those who know how to read and write: “What will they read how much will they read and how will they read?” . Today given the gaps in the reading competence of university students we are going to take care of scrutinizing from a pedagogical and analytical point of view what comprehensive and detailed reading of a text consists of a type of reading necessary in university studies.
To do this we are going to answer three new questions: what is a text? What does it mean to understand a text? and how to proceed to achieve it? The text: complex and pluricoded object . A text is a new object for the reader; hence the functionality of reading: allowing you to discover that something new conveyed by the text. And furthermore it is a complex object; Therefore reading it is a complicated and difficult activity. Now texts are usually “pluricoded” : the same message is expressed with different codes. On the one hand the linguistic message is usually accompanied by iconic messages photos drawings etc.. Furthermore the texts are always preceded by a “pre-text” title subtitles. And finally if the texts are well written the author has taken care of the editing dividing them into paragraphs. Given the complexity of texts and reading these elements are the lifeline and all-risk insurance for reading comprehension of the linguistic message.
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