Uso didáctico de los textos hipermediales para la promoción de la lectura inferencial en inglés.

Faced with the challenges involved in teaching and learning English during the time of the pandemic caused by Sars-Covid19, in secondary and secondary education, a study was proposed that aimed to analyze the didactic use of hypermedia texts for the promotion of inferential reading in English in Spanish-speaking students, who were in the eleventh grade. The applied methodology was the collective case study, where five students from a public educational institution in the city of Medellin, Colombia participated. The instruments used were the field diary, to record the information on the development of the workshops and the electronic survey, to know the perspective of the students. Three categories emerged in the results: contributions of hypermedia characteristics to inferential reading, reading strategies applied by students and difficulties presented in the didactic intervention. The conclusions state that the characteristics of hypermedia texts diversify the possibilities of understanding texts in English by students with different levels of command of the foreign language. On the other hand, when the design of the activities is overloaded with hypermedia resources, it affects the interest and cognitive abilities associated with reading of the students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]