La importancia del uso de paratextos para la comprensión lectora

Abstract

The present research aims to give relevance to paratexts as a facilitating tool for the reading comprehension. To achieve this purpose, a bibliographic investigation has been carried out, since firstly the different conceptions, types, functions and importance that paratexts exert in a text will be examined. Then, a detailed description is made of the reading comprehension category in aspects of the definitions of reading and compression, reading stages, types of reading, importance of reading comprehension and levels of reading comprehension. After the analysis of the two categories, it is shown how paratexts are important in the reading comprehension, since to understand and interpret a text, the student or the reader must apply several reading activities. These activities are involved the analysis and study of paratexts that are both external and internal. It is concluded that paratexts are essential elements that must intervene when understanding a text, since students or readers when examining the paratexts set the first ideas and previous inferences about textual content.