The development of online reading skills, a challenge to improve higher education

Abstract

This article presents the findings of the project interdisciplinary reading skills in mother tongue UNIMINUTO carried out in 2017 and 2018 by teachers belonging to the coordination of CEPLEC-English (Written Communication and Reader Processes) of the Minuto de Dios University Corporation Vicerrectoría Regional Bogotá Sur who accompany the reading and writing processes of students of the technological and professional programs on a face-to-face and virtual level. The development of communicative competence critical reading allows establishing a direct relationship between the analysis and understanding of the various texts with which people surround themselves on a daily basis. These texts are classified by the ICFES in continuous and discontinuous, taking into account the premise that the verbal component is used to communicate information and the nonverbal one to communicate personal states and attitudes. The project allows students to familiarize themselves with the different types of text: argumentative, informative, narrative, graphic and caricature, through the application of tests with the structure of the ECAES tests, analysing their impact on the training of students, with a view to proposing strategies for improving vocational training.