Stimulovanie exekutívnych funkcií žiaka prostredníctvom procesov porozumenia textu
Stimulating Pupil’s Executive Functions Through Processes of Text Comprehension

Summary/Abstract: The theoretical study is a part of APVV-0281-11 interdisciplinary research project on Executive Functions as a Structural Component of the Ability to Learn: Diagnostics and Stimulation. One of the project’s aims is to draw up a program for stimulating executive functioning of pupils utilising the selected curricular area of mother tongue (Slovak) in primary education. The key concepts of Cognitive Education and Executive Functions are briefly illustrated in the introductory part. Further, we explain the choice of the text comprehension as a curricular area utilised in designing the tasks for stimulating executive functions in pupils. The aim of the study is to: a) present the basic theoretical approaches to investigating the relationship between executive functions and the processes of text comprehension, b) introduce the available empirical findings on the given relationship, and c) outline linguistic and pedagogic implications for this area.

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