Abstract

MIRANDA TORRES, Yudith; PAREDES MARIN, Ángela  and  GARCIA FERNANDEZ, Ioanys. Development of reading comprehension skill in English for specific purposes at the University of Cienfuegos. Conrado [online]. 2020, vol.16, n.75, pp.168-171.  Epub Aug 02, 2020. ISSN 2519-7320.

This research was possible due to existing problems at the Cienfuegos University where the students of Agriculture had difficulties with reading comprehension in English. At the same time, they don’t have a textbook that relates the content of the technical subjects and the foreign language, as a result they were not able to translate and interpret texts, constituting the major objectives in their training, because the updated literature is in English. It was carried out a methodological strategy for the development of these skills in English based on readings related to the most important contents that the students should know at the end of their speciality, a glossary of terms that facilitate understanding of technical vocabulary and a list of exercises. These readings are closely related to the development of sustainable agriculture, care and protection of the environment among other issues. This work was carried out for 2 year, reaching satisfactory results, motivation and interest of students, improved learning outcomes, reading comprehension and interpretation of texts, better graduates with scientific cultural knowledge and literature for conducting independent work or other activities.

Keywords : Skill; agronomy; technical vocabulary; English; comprehension.

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