Fictional stories and reading skill

Abstract

The present research aimed at studying the relationship between Fiction Stories and Reading Skill. To carry out this research, it was considered to use the qualitativequantitative approach. A pre-and post-test were applied for which a KET test was used, specifically the reading section. The Test focuses on different aspects of reading for which in the experimentation the use of reading strategies was considered: skimming, scanning, predicting, deducing meaning from context, and reading for detail. These strategies were used to read the Fictitious Stories that, according to a survey applied to students, it was decided to choose the genre of Mystery stories. This experiment was applied to a group of 43 third-semester students of the Pedagogy of National and Foreign Languages at the Technical University of Ambato. After the application of the treatment, the post-test indicated a slight improvement with respect to almost all the parts of the reading section of the KET exam. However main findings indicate that fiction stories do not develop reading skills in depth. They needed more practice and work with other strategies