Reading strategies and activities usage for teaching English to baccalaureate students in the city of Loja.

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Abstract:This research is focused on the use of reading strategies and activities usage for teaching English to baccalaureate students in the city of Loja, Ecuador; whose main purpose is to identify the most frequent strategies and activities used for teaching English as Foreign Language in two private high schools in the city of Loja. In this concern, it was developed under a mixed-method: qualitative and quantitative, with a sample of sixty EFL students of second and third year of senior high school and their six English teachers. In order to collect the data, students surveys, teachers interviews, and class observations were applied. The findings mainly confirm that the most used strategies and activities to teach reading are the pre-reading activities due since allow teachers to introduce the topic and get students engaged. Those strategies are guessing what the reading is about through titles, subtitles, and pictures, as well as finding and underlining sentences with newfangled grammatical structures. Regarding the most used reading activities, teachers find brainstorming useful in order to teach reading because it helps students understand the topic and create new knowledge.