Romualdo Ibáñez

• Doctor en Lingüística
• Professor at Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso

This paper reports an expansion of the English as a second language (L2) component of the Multilingual Eye Movement Corpus (MECO L2), an international database of eye movements during text reading. While the previous Wave 1 of the MECO project (Kuperman et al., 2023) contained English as a L2 reading data from readers with 12 different first langua...

This paper reports an expansion of the English as a second language (L2) component of the Multilingual Eye Movement Corpus (MECO L2), an international database of eye movements during text reading. While the previous Wave 1 of the MECO project (Kuperman et al., 2023) contained English as a L2 reading data from readers with 12 different first langua...

Chile and other Latin American countries consistently demonstrate the lowest scores in the international surveys of foundational information-processing skills. This paper examines the effect of formal education on the literacy and numeracy performance of Chilean adults and compares this effect with that observed in Latin American countries with sim...

Chile and other Latin American countries consistently demonstrate the lowest scores in the international surveys of foundational information-processing skills. This paper examines the effect of formal education on the literacy and numeracy performance of Chilean adults and compares this effect with that observed in Latin American countries with sim...

Recent studies have reported important benefits of Resistance Training (RT) in cognitive function; however, there are certain aspects concerning the study of this relation between RT and cognition that still remain unexplored. Some of these aspects encompass populations, programming parameters, and outcome measures. Our interest is unveiling the po...

The Hybrid Text Comprehension cloze (HyTeC-cloze) (Kleijn et al. Lang Test 36:553–572, 2019) is a procedure developed for the Dutch language that has been proved to be a valid and reliable measure of text comprehension beyond the sentence level. Given its advantages, including its relatively rapid construction and scoring and performance compared t...

Resumen El presente estudio tuvo dos objetivos. El primero fue determinar el efecto de la subjetividad y de la explicitud de las relaciones de coherencia causal en el procesamiento y en la comprensión de estudiantes chilenos de educación básica. El segundo fue determinar si tal efecto varía dependiendo del nivel socioeconómico (NSE). Para ello, se...

El objetivo del presente estudio fue comparar, por medio de una herramienta de análisis automático, la complejidad sintáctica de los textos utilizados para comunicar el conocimiento en los textos escolares de tres asignaturas de educación básica o primaria (Lenguaje y Comunicación, Ciencias Naturales e Historia Geografía y Ciencias Sociales). Para...

Previous corpus-based studies (Ibáñez, Moncada & Cárcamo, 2019) have identified the most and the least frequent coherence relations in Chilean primary school textbooks. Based on these findings, in this study, we explored the effect of exposure to coherence relations on their processing and comprehension. We expected the most frequent coherence rela...

The purpose of this study was to compare: 1) the connective expressions (CEs) used to signal causal coherence relations in primary school textbooks from four different school subjects (variety); 2) patterns of use of these CEs in terms of the types and number of causal relations they signal across subjects (functionality); 3) patterns of use of the...

The objective of the present study was to characterize, according to readability indicators, two of the most frequent Knowledge Genres in the Textbook of Language and Communication of the Eighth Grade in Chile: Content Exposition and Note. Indicators belonging to word, sentence and discursive dimensions, were considered to semi automatically analyz...

The aim of this study was to compare the use of coherence relations in the school textbooks of four primary school subjects. A corpus of 1,882 texts, corresponding to the genres used to teach in the school textbooks of Science, Language, Mathematics, and History, was analyzed. The analysis was performed manually using a taxonomy that incorporates a...

This study aimed to characterize the process of knowledge recontextualization (Bernstein, 1990) based on the functions that Knowledge Genres perform in elementary school textbooks, used in Chile. The analysis was conducted on a corpus comprising the 11,139 instances of the 15 Knowledge Genres reported by Ibáñez, Moncada, Cornejo and Arriaza (2017),...

o El objetivo del presente estudio es comparar el resumen de artículos de investigación científica (AICs) de dos disciplinas (Biología e Historia) a partir de su organización retórica y de las relaciones de coherencia que lo configuran. Para describir la organización retórica, utilizamos, como taxonomía de arranque, la propuesta de Hyland (2000) ,...

El objetivo del presente estudio es describir los Géneros del Conocimiento (GCOs) utilizados en el Texto Escolar (TE) de cinco asignaturas del segundo ciclo de educación básica chilena. Mediante un enfoque descendente ascendente, estos géneros fueron identificados en un corpus constituido por 100 textos escolares distribuidos por el Ministerio de E...

In this study, we compare the way in which coherence is articulated in the written academic discourse in Spanish of two disciplines (Biology and Law). To do so, we use a top down - bottom up framework of analysis from which a series of criteria for the identification and description of coherence relations aroused. Those criteria were applied to a c...

For the last forty years, a great number of studies regarding referential coherence and its processing has been carried out. In most of them, pronoun disambiguation is understood as an invariable phenomenon. From our perspective, due to the type and amount of knowledge involved, during academic reading, the way certain factors affect this type of p...

Due to the importance that abstracts holds in scientific communication, during the last decades several specialists have studied it. Many of them have focused on the rhetorical organization of this genre (Dos Santos 1996; Hyland 2000; Martín-Martín 2003; Lorés 2004), and their results have systematically demonstrated that such organization varies a...

Due to the importance that abstracts holds in scientific communication, during the last decades several specialists have studied it. Many of them have focused on the rhetorical organization of this genre (Dos Santos 1996; Hyland 2000; Martín-Martín 2003; Lorés 2004), and their results have systematically demonstrated that such organization varies a...

For the last forty years, a great number of studies regarding referential coherence and its processing has been carried out. In most of them, pronoun disambiguation is understood as an invariable phenomenon. From our perspective, due to the type and amount of knowledge involved, during academic reading, the way certain factors affect this type of p...

La investigación tuvo como objetivo conocer la percepción de los estudiantes de Pedagogía en Educación Básica sobre la formación recibida en el área de lenguaje y el grado de preparación que perciben para enseñar en esta área. Se diseñó y aplicó un cuestionario que respondieron 276 egresados de ocho universidades chilenas. Los resultados muestran q...

During the last decades, assessment of written discourse comprehension has attracted the interest of a large number of specialists from various disciplinary fields, such as psycholinguistics, discourse psychology, applied linguistics, among others. This has led to a significant number of studies, most of which are essentially focused on issues rega...

RESUMEN En este artículo nos interesa conocer los mecanismos discursivos escritos por medio de los cuales los estudiantes doctorales acceden a la información especializada y se posibilita así la construcción del conocimiento a través de diversas disciplinas. Así, los objetivos de este artículo son identificar y describir los géneros del discurso ac...

El proposito del estudio es indagar de manera exploratoria la formacion inicial de profesores de Educacion General Basica en el area de Lenguaje y Comunicacion en Chile. Para ello se realizo un analisis de las mallas curriculares y de los programas de cursos de Lenguaje de una muestra representativa de veinte universidades e institutos formadores d...

En este artículo describimos un género discursivo altamente relevante en la construcción del conocimiento disciplinar a nivel terciario, el Texto Disciplinar. Este género aparece como uno de los más frecuentes medios de comunicación escrita en el Corpus Académico PUCV-2006, en tres carreras: Trabajo Social, Psicología e Ingeniería en Construcción....

In this article, we describe an academic genre that has proved to be relevant in disciplinary knowledge construction at university level: Disciplinary Text. This genre has emerged as one of the most frequent means of written communication in the PUCV-2006 Academic Corpus, in three different university programs: Social Work, Psychology, and Construc...

This volume offers a description and a deep examination of discourse genres across four disciplines (Psychology, Social Work, Industrial Chemistry, and Construction Engineering), in academic and professional settings. The study is based on one of the largest available corpus on disciplinary written discourse in Spanish (PUCV-2006 Corpus of Spanish...

In this article, we identified, defined, classified, and exemplified the discourse genres that have emerged from the 933 texts forming the PUCV-2006 Academic and Professional Corpus of Spanish. To accomplish these objectives, we adopt a deductive-inductive complementary methodology. Five criteria were selected and employed in order to classify the...

Nowadays, it is considered essential for university students to have psycho-discursive skills that allow them comprehend disciplinary texts successfully. However, as English has become a lingua franca, not only in the fields of international trading and technology development, but also in research and education, in countries where English is not th...

This article presents and defines research on comprehension of disciplinary text written in English as an emerging research field. To do this, we present a scientific-historical view, from which we distinguish concepts considered critical to set the limits of this type of research, such as, comprehension and reading. We also describe English for Ac...

Without any doubt, for a researcher in the area of discourse comprehension, it is essential to know the disciplines underlying a theoretical model under study, the cognitive approach to which it adheres, and, of course, the originality of its postulates. From this standpoint, in this article, we describe and critically analyze the work of Rolf Zwaa...