Awareness of Text Structure to Enhance Academic Reading

Abstract

Abstract: The current study Awareness of Text Structure to Enhance Academic Reading, tends to determine how students knowledge of text structure could influence learners reading skills. To achieve this goal, two educational institutions in the city of Loja-Ecuador were chosen for the development of the study. The participants were 20 students from a private school constituted the experimental group; 20 students from a public school became the control. The age of the students in both groups ranged from 17 to 19 years old, boys and girls respectively. For the development of the research, it was applied a mixed method study, and for the collection of data, 4 instruments were designed: survey, interview, pre-test, and post test. For the experimental group, 3 interventions were applied. The researcher provided information about academic texts to determine if this knowledge was useful to improve learners reading skills, and also it was evaluated through a Post-test. Finally, as a result of the intervention and analysis of data collected, it was concluded that the knowledge of the structure of academic texts helped learners to improve their reading skills.