A Functional Approximation to the “Main Idea” Notion of a Text

Abstract

A study was realized where there were evaluated the effects of training 20 students of the first semester of the master in Psychology of the FES Iztacala, to choosing the principal idea in texts, with base in the different levels of reading adjustment proposed by Carpio (1994). Group divided the participants at random in four different groups Control (Group C) Group Ajustividad (Group A), Group Relevancy (Group P) and Group Coherence (Group Ch). All the groups were exposed to the evaluation 1 and the 2nd and only the group Control was not exposed to a situation of training. The results show that really in agreement to the trained criterion, the pupils choosing as principal ideas those that were constructed by base in the different types of criterion in the one that they were trained. While the identification of the principal idea can be modified by means of the imposition of different criteria of adjustment, he lacks sense to continue speaking about principal idea, provided that the reading performance in correspondence on the type of criterion of adjustment would meet place to different types of ideas, so many people as criteria imposed on the reader.

Keywords

• Idea principal
• Ajuste Lector
• Comprensión
• Lectura.