Correspondencia entre la lectura y la escritura en los niños venezolanos

Abstract

This study was conducted to show how children's reading comprehension abilities are related to their abilities to produce written texts. Such a relationship was established in a group of 452 Venezuelan ninth graders, between 14 and 16 years of age, using a factorial analysis. From the results we can conclude that, (1) a close relationship between these abilities doesn't appear to exist, as it is commonly assumed; (2) a clear relationship between reading and writing abilities doesn't exist, at least considering those selected for this particular study; (3) students' sex didn't affect the relationship, males and females performed similarly; (4) socio-economic status slightly affected the relationship and (5) students' reading performance did affect the relationship, specially at the lower leveis.