The teaching of the english language and its influence on the development of reading comprehension and written production with the adult students at the Canadian house center during the academic year 2010-2011

Abstract

The current research work shows the existing situation from the Canadian House Center, whose purpose was to show the need of improvement of reading comprehension and written production, goal that could be attained through the application of right techniques for reading and writing, and in this way strengthen the students´ learning. In order to the study of the data, the description, analysis and interpretation of results; similarly to the development of the field research and the stating of conclusions, it was necessary the application of the following methods: scientific, analytic-synthetic, descriptive, deductive and explicative. The instrument selected for this study was the survey, which was applied to the whole population from CHC that was of 125 students together with their 6 teachers. Among the most relevant conclusions found throughout the development of this thesis were the following: The students are not awaked of the existence of some reading techniques to the applications of these at the moment they face up comprehension difficulties. Furthermore, they are unmotivated for reading, due to they see reading as a simply activity to the looking up of information and not as a task to the enlarging of their vocabulary, the construction of meaning or to the activation of their own cognitive knowledge. The teachers from CHC do not develop the whole writing process with the students; process that must include; prewriting, organizing, drafting, revising and editing. The teachers just have the students write pieces of writing but the students are not well qualified as to carry out this process.