Abstract

RIOS OLAYA, Sonia Rocío  and  VALCARCEL GOYENECHE, Ana Milena. Reading: A Meaningful Way to Promote Learning English in High School. profile [online]. 2005, n.6, pp.59-72. ISSN 1657-0790.

This project involved three different groups of seventh grade, at the Luis López de Mesa state school in Bosa, Bogotá (Colombia). Thinking of a way to adapt the foreign language learning-teaching process to our real conditions, we found reading very useful to enable students to learn English more easily and accurately. We show how English language learning can be developed from reading processes involving the other language skills and can help students to develop individual and social skills. We conclude that reading becomes a meaningful way to learn a foreign language when teachers choose reading material according to learners’ interests, age and needs, and other content areas.

Keywords : Reading; English language; meaningful reading; action research.

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