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Abstract

In this work, we analyze how to approach new strategies for teaching students "how to learn" from text, which represent an important demand for educational guidance in Secondary Schools. Both the tutorial and the educational intervention have been traditionally guided toward the instruction of semantic strategies and "study techniques", toward the extraction of main ideas from the text. Other alternative has provided more effective tools to analyse the structure of the text, in order to develop reasoning and comprehension capacities involved. We discuss the main problem and advantages about these perspectives and defend a proposal that, in previous studies, has shown clear improvements in the strategies facing the study of academic texts in the Social Science area.