Academic performance at the cognitive level in language and literature in higher basic students

Abstract

The objective of the research is to identify academic performance at the cognitive level in Language and literature in the Higher Basic students of the Carlos María Educational Unit, from Santa Rita - Chone. Experts have been warning for years that education in Latin America has serious deficiencies and this reality is verified in the reports that are made on the subject, in the PISA tests, showing that the levels are below the global standards of school performance. In the study, didactic strategies are proposed for the development of language and creativity in the teaching-learning process that led to improving reading and writing, to raise the cognitive level and develop knowledge in the expression of language. The research was explanatory in the field with a bibliographic review; the quantitative approach, using scientific, inductive, deductive, analytical, synthetic, and statistical methods. The results obtained even though teachers apply strategies to motivate students to practice the language, parents, even though they have completed secondary education and have mastery of reading; They do not spend the necessary time to help their children.