Intensive reading to improve reading comprehension skills in International Baccalaureate (IB) students

Abstract

The article presented a study on intensive work to improve reading comprehension skills in International Baccalaureate (IB) students. This research is based on the information the students acquire essentially that allows the understanding of the English language through reading at lower levels, so when they meet at superior levels do not have all the skills to perceive what they are reading and doing so optimally it is difficult for them to understand a text to deduce meanings, words, phrases or a conversation in the English language. The work aims to analyze Reading Competence as a fundamental need for learning English as a second language. The studio is focused on the group of high school students from the Unidad Educativa Particular “Redemptio” in the city of Jipijapa, province of Manabi. The work had a mixed approach, of bibliographic type and descriptive scope, which are used to obtain information, together with techniques such as surveys of International Baccalaureate students of the Educational Unit and interviews with teachers of the same institution. Obtaining as results that most of the students have a fascination for reading in English unlike the study, in addition, you teach a good understanding regarding the chosen reading in terms of the organization of teachers.
 Keywords: Comprehension skills, international baccalaureate, reading, learning, English