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Revista Chakiñan de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades
On-line version ISSN 2550-6722
Abstract
HERNANDEZ-CHERREZ, Elsa; HIDALGO-CAMACHO, Cynthia Soledad and CARRERA-MARTINEZ, Verónica. GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS FOR THE ENHANCEMENT OF EFL READING COMPREHENSION. Revista Chakiñan [online]. 2020, n.12, pp.106-117. ISSN 2550-6722. https://doi.org/10.37135/chk.002.12.07.
It is widely known that effective readers are those who have appropriately developed reading skills. If those skills are not developed, the readers will not achieve the levels of perception needed to solve problems or pass academic tests, neither in their mother tongue nor in a foreign language. For this reason, it is imperative to find the right strategies to enhance reading comprehension in English as Foreign Language (EFL) learners. One of those strategies is the use of graphic organizers, and this study aimed to measure the extent to which it influences the development of reading comprehension of Unidad Educativa Joaquin Lalama students, in Ambato-Ecuador. 40 students in the control group and 35 students in the experimental group constituted the sample. The data was collected through the observation technique and the comparison of results from a reading comprehension pre-test and post-test. Finally, this study found the use of graphic organizers to be effective for developing reading comprehension in the subjects observed.
Keywords : Reading comprehension; english as foreign language; graphic organizers; reading skills.