Una perspectiva conceptual de la redacción de estudiantes universitarios en el ámbito de la ciencia

Abstract

A discourse competence in the area of science; comprising production as well as understanding; allows full participation in the scientific experience as a part of scientific activity. In order to successfully participate in this domain; one has to establish conceptual frames or cognitive models that organize the experience within this domain and allow the individual to share its activities and its forms of signification. Discourse is another activity within this field; and its configuration; the notions with which it is constructed; as well as the relations between them; express the organization and the construction of conceptual frames. In this paper we analyze two abstracts written by students after reading the text “Levels of Linguistic Analysis” by Emile Benveniste. By means of this analysis we will show that if a student has not yet acquired the adequate frames for the understanding of a text; he
will construct a comprehension that depends on his own knowledge and expectations; and which does not always coincide with the structure of the original text; but constitutes one phase in his construction of conceptual frames.