Reading strategies to promote literature in a virtual enrivonment for EFL learners

Abstract

This document seeks to identify which strategies and principles might be the most appropriate to promote reading skills habits through literature in a virtual environment for intermediate English Foreign Language learners from tenth grade in a private school in Bogota, Colombia. The document explores theoretical references about studies made previously in different countries around the world, where authors were looking for specific activities that allow students to improve their reading skills and where they obtained satisfactory results. In this project, it is included a proposal to be made as a reading plan for a school year, divided into four academic terms of 9 weeks each, where learners receive five English hours per week and one of these will be destined specifically for the reading work. They are presented exercises and online resources that seek to promote motivation and improve Reading comprehension. In addition, the strategies propose allow learners to accomplish production processes, such as writing and speaking, with the vocabulary learned, acquiring the second language in a meaningful way.