The Role of Inferences: What the Text is Silent About (and the Reader Reconstructs)

Description

Objectives

• Explore the role of inferences as a bridge between what is explicit in the text and the reader's prior knowledge.
• Reflect on how to teach students to read between the lines and construct deeper meaning.
• Review the most widely accepted types of inferences and their contribution to comprehension.
• Design classroom proposals that integrate inferential work across different genres and text formats.
• Promote a critical view of inferential processes, considering both their potential and their limits in comprehension.