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Text translation techniques

Generic reading strategies

Meta-guiding

It consists on drawing invisible forms on a page of text to expand the visual space for quick reading and even on printing the information in our subconscious for later recovery.

Helps establish objectives and anticipate content

Guides the reader before and during reading

The fragmentation and minimization of subvocalization

It corresponds in a few words, to the internal speech that we

commonly do while reading

Divides the text into information units

Reduces word-by-word reading

Promotes faster and more efficient reading

It enables and helps the mind to

access the meanings of words, sentences, paragraphs, etc. to understand and remember what is read, so that the cognitive load is reduced

Skills and strategies linked to the reading technique

Understanding of lexical units

Identify nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and technical terms

Allows understand the meaning of words within the text

Understanding Word and Sentence Combinations

Include collocations, phrases, expressions and sentences

Allows interpret meaning according to context

Informative-load disengagement

It involves identifying relevant information, distinguishing between primary and secondary information and

avoiding a focus on unnecessary details

Designed to fully understand the content of a medical text

Requires vocabulary + context + text structure + prior knowledge

Interpreting the information of a text are related not only to the apprehension of the central idea, of what the author had in mind and want to convey, but also to the establishment of the readers’

orientation

Preliminary concepts

Linguistic Difficulties and Individual Variability

Does not depend on:

Paragraphs + spaces + punctuation marks

Because they do not guarantee understanding of the internal meaning or subtext

Difficulties may be related to the level of language proficiency, prior knowledge, vocabulary, experience with medical texts and reading comprehension ability

Key words

They allow you ton identify the main ideas, locate important information, anticipate the content and summarize the text

Time order: information is displayed in the order of the events, that is, in a chronological order

Compare and contrast: information is set to show the similarities as well as the differences

Classification: information is classified in categories to illustrate or explain a concept

Spatial order: left to right, top to bottom commonly used in descriptions, maps,

diagrams and drawings to help to record spatial details

Order of importance: to the least to most important: descriptive or persuasive writing, reports or news reports in the form of visual organizers

Cause/Effect: information is displayed to correlate a result with a series of events, showing a logical relationship between a cause and the effect in a problem/solution in an order or process fashion

Writing-Reading Correlation

Reading

Provides vocabulary

Demonstrates linguistic structures

Develops comprehension

Writing

Reinforces vocabulary

Helps organize ideas

Improves written expression

Vocabulary Acquisition

The potential vocabulary is made up of the lexical units that did not exist in the reader's previous linguistic experience, but that can be recognized by inference

The meaning of a new unit can be deduced as a result of the analysis of its morphological

conformation