Se reseñan dos eventos realizados en conjunto durante el año 2020: el III Workshop de investigación en Didáctica de las Ciencias Naturales y Experimentales y la Escuela para investigadoras e investigadores en formación en el área. Ambos se realizaron en modalidad virtual en la Universidad Nacional de Río Negro y constituyeron espacios de diálogo e intercambio entre distintos grupos de investigación que integran el CONGRIDEC, así como también, entre investigadoras e investigadores en formación. ark:/s23449225/5avell9q6

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The Universidad de la República, in Uruguay, offers reading comprehension in English courses within the career of dentistry for students to access information in this language. The study sought to analyze the fulfilment of the course’s aims and to test the hypothesis that the greater the vocabulary that dentistry students possess, the better they will be able to understand written dentistry texts. A mixed approach, based on interviews and a class survey, was used. Data showed that the course’s objectives were achieved. Participants stated that the course is highly meaningful, and they believed that the previously mentioned correlation exists. However, this could not be statistically verified, which indicates that multiple reading comprehension skills are involved when trying to understand academic texts.