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    Reciprocal Teaching Strategy and Reading Comprehension
    (Universidad Técnica de Ambato-Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y de la educación -Carrera de Pedagogía de los Idiomas Nacionales y Extranjeros, 2025-07-01) Tubón Guamán Ibeth Celena; Mayorga Gaona Carlos Daniel; Universidad Técnica de Ambato-Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y de la educación -Carrera de Pedagogía de los Idiomas Nacionales y Extranjeros
    The following research work aimed to analyze the impact of the Reciprocal Teaching Strategy on the Reading Comprehension of 36 students from the second semester of Pedagogía de los Idiomas Nacionales y Extranjeros at Universidad Técnica de Ambato. The methodology used in this study was a quantitative approach with a pre-experimental design. Regarding the evaluation instrument, the first four parts of the KET reading test from Cambridge were used as a pre-test and post-test to assess the students’ reading comprehension. Moreover, the interventions consisted of ten 90-minute sessions, in which Reciprocal Teaching with various types of texts was used to enhance learners’ reading comprehension. These sessions had a pre-while and post-reading lesson plan structure, where the strategies of questioning, predicting, clarifying, and summarizing of Reciprocal Teaching were applied. The data was analyzed through IBM´s Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS), which showed a mean difference of 3.78 and a significance of p = 0.000 between the pre-test and post-test. These results demonstrate a significant improvement in students’ reading performance after the application of the strategy. Reciprocal teaching allowed students to interact with texts more effectively, enhancing their literal and inferential comprehension, increasing their vocabulary, and improving their grammatical competence. In addition, this strategy, being collaborative, fostered group knowledge construction, active learning, and critical thinking through communication among students. In conclusion, Reciprocal Teaching proved to be an effective didactic strategy to improve the reading comprehension of university students.