Effects of Dialogic Reading in the Improvement of Reading Comprehension in Students of Primary Education

Reading is an essential factor for success at school that requires certain skills and strategies of great complexity rarely taught in schools. Verbalization of comprehension strategies can be considered an effective measure in learning to read. The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of a program of teaching reading strategies implemented through interactive dialogic reading groups in the learning of reading comprehension. A quasi-experimental comparison with pretest and posttest design between groups was used. A sample of 355 participants aged between 8 and 9 years aged was used. The results weigh the potential value of the program and support the development of teaching models that integrate dialogic reading practices as they facilitate learning of reading comprehension.

Una eina per a l’escriptura extensiva i l’argumentació: el diari de lectura

L’article versa sobre les possibilitats de treball de l’escriptura a Batxillerat a partir d’una seqüència didàctica per a l’elaboració d’un diari de lectura, que és un document produït pels alumnes a partir del que els suggereix la lectura d’una obra literària. Tot revisant les bases pedagògiques de la didàctica actual del català quant al procés d’escriptura i el valor de l’argumentació i de la reflexió en l’àmbit educatiu, es pretén que el llibre es convertisca en un estímul per a la creativitat i possibilite l’escriptura extensiva. Així doncs, l’obra literària deixa de ser un element de lectura superficial i pren un caràcter dialògic. El lector esdevé alhora escriptor i, com a tal, s’enfronta a les dificultats i moments de gaudi que aquest fet implica.

Testing the level of interactivity of institutional websites: From museums 1.0 to museums 2.0

The Internet has changed the way in which organizations communicate with their publics, and museums are not an exception. The consolidation of Web 2.0 has not only given museums access to a powerful new tool for disseminating information, but has involved significant changes in the relationship between institutions and their publics, facilitating and enhancing the interaction between them. The overall objective of this paper is to analyze the degree of interactivity implemented in the websites of major international art museums, in order to assess if museums are evolving towards more dialogic systems with relation to their publics. The results indicate that museums still have a low level of interactivity on their websites, both in the tools used to present information and the resources available for interaction with virtual visitors. But it has also observed that museums are progressively implementing interactive and dialogic sources, suggesting a clear trend towards new ways of managing these platforms in order to establish more participatory and collaborative communication systems with virtual users.