An analysis of the problems Magisterio Students of English have when reading texts in English
Resumen
The problems students of English have in processing when reading texts is quite unknown. One can argue that processin aspects are difficult to measure as it is difficult to find a good instrument to analyse what is happening in the mind of the reader. In this paper, I want to show that the analysis of summaries made by the students after reading a text is a good instrument to measure the type of problems they have reading. My study shows that it is grammatical and textual, rather than lexical problems, that create understanding problems, together with too much rellance on top-down processes. If that is the case in further research, we might argue that the students need more instruction on grammar and textual cohesion in relation to reading comprehension before they can rely too much on top-down processes. Otherwise, this type of processing could be misleading.