Improving the reading comprehension skill of 7th grade students al Centro Educativo Salesianos Alameda by using four reading techniques

Abstract

The present dissertation project is about the reading comprehension problems among students in a specific school. The project strategy and techniques is about introducing a new reading comprehension using a workshop in that specific school to improve readi ng comprehension skills among students. It is going to be implemented that strategy and those techniques on eight sessions twice a week on seventhgrade students in order to improve their reading comprehension. The techniques that are going to be used were taken by different authors who speak about reading comprehension itself, mother tongue (L1) and second language development. It is important to comprehend that the use of to understanding and improving the second lan the strategy and techniques is related guage in a reading comprehension task. The way in which is going to be implemented will be using a workshop as a strategy. It is expected that the results that will be obtained are going to present changes between the first intervention done in two seventh grade courses and the second one done in the same courses in a different period of time. Those changes would be such as students obtaining lower grades than the first intervention; obtaining better grades than the first intervention or even maintaining th e level of grades they already have. Those assumptions will prove or disprove if the project advanced in a positive, negative or neutral way. KeywordsReading Comprehension, Strategy, Techniques, Skills.