español Reading aloud effects. Systematic review

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Catalina Roa Casas
Christian Hederich

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The article is a systematic review of articles included in Scopus about the effects of reading aloud. 104 articles were selected from different areas, in this articles, the reading aloud is the main strategy or associated with others. Bibliometric indicators of years of publication, journals, institutions, most recurrent thematic and collaboration between authors are reported. The type text read, the topic of reading, the age and school levels and the particularities of population are described. A typology of effects of reading aloud in six groups is presented, in order of frequency: communicative, cognitive, socio-emotional, reading behavior, academic performance and others. Finally, three articles groups were defined inductively: educational studies, therapeutic studies and memory studies.

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Catalina Roa Casas, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

Maestría/Magister PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD JAVERIANA
Maestría en Educación

Licenciatura en Pedagogía Infantil

Christian Hederich, Universidad Autónoma de Manizales

Doctor en Psicología por la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona.

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=X7Y7B9wAAAAJ&hl=es

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