Reading for Information at Secondary School Level

Authors

  • Graciela Saravia
  • Elena Carlsen
  • Susana Briones
  • Laura Moreno
  • Susana Fernandez

Keywords:

reading comprehension, secondary school English, reading methodology, public school English

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to report on the results obtained in a study carried out in a fifth year of a secondary school to prove the advantage of limiting the objectives of English courses to Reading Comprehension in the last year of public secondary school.The procedures used to collect the data were questionnaires, tests, the school teacher’s report and the research team’s report.The results of this study showed that the emphasis on reading comprehension is advisable due to the English teaching situation in the North of Argentina.

Author Biographies

Graciela Saravia

Graciela Saravia, Elena Carlsen, Susana Briones, Laura Moreno, Susana Fernandez are ESP teachers at Universidad Nacional de Salta, Argentina. They have conducted research in ESP methodology and Applied Linguistics. Their main interest is Reading Comprehension and their current research focuses on Reading Strategy Awareness and on Lexis.

Elena Carlsen

Graciela Saravia, Elena Carlsen, Susana Briones, Laura Moreno, Susana Fernandez are ESP teachers at Universidad Nacional de Salta, Argentina. They have conducted research in ESP methodology and Applied Linguistics. Their main interest is Reading Comprehension and their current research focuses on Reading Strategy Awareness and on Lexis.

Susana Briones

Graciela Saravia, Elena Carlsen, Susana Briones, Laura Moreno, Susana Fernandez are ESP teachers at Universidad Nacional de Salta, Argentina. They have conducted research in ESP methodology and Applied Linguistics. Their main interest is Reading Comprehension and their current research focuses on Reading Strategy Awareness and on Lexis.

Laura Moreno

Graciela Saravia, Elena Carlsen, Susana Briones, Laura Moreno, Susana Fernandez are ESP teachers at Universidad Nacional de Salta, Argentina. They have conducted research in ESP methodology and Applied Linguistics. Their main interest is Reading Comprehension and their current research focuses on Reading Strategy Awareness and on Lexis.

Susana Fernandez

Graciela Saravia, Elena Carlsen, Susana Briones, Laura Moreno, Susana Fernandez are ESP teachers at Universidad Nacional de Salta, Argentina. They have conducted research in ESP methodology and Applied Linguistics. Their main interest is Reading Comprehension and their current research focuses on Reading Strategy Awareness and on Lexis.

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Issue

Vol. 19 No. 1 (1998)

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Papers

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