Methodological strategy that contributes to the strengthening of literacy in second-year high school students of the San Francisco de Asís Private Educational Unit

Abstract

Literacy is fundamental and transversal in the teaching-learning process of students in an Educational Institution, the failure that occurs in this area, harms academic performance in the areas of training. In this sense, this research was carried out with the objective of design methodological strategies that contribute to the strengthening of literacy in students of the second year of high school of the San Francisco de Asís Private Educational Unit, it was framed in an approach quantitative, descriptive type, using methods such as theoretical, analysis and synthesis, and inductive-deductive. For the analysis of results, inferential descriptive statistics were used with the support of specialized software. A sample of 59 second-year high school students of the Educational Unit was selected, the sample was non-probabilistic of the census type. In the results it was evidenced that, in the majority of the students, there are difficulties when it comes to reading and writing, only a minority manage to achieve this competence; thus justifying that with the investigation an alternative is presented to reduce this difficulty in the students, as well as it can be applied to other localities and territorial spaces of Ecuador.

Keywords: Methodological Strategy; Literacy; High School Students.