The Reading habit as a strength in learningforeign languagesAbstract.- Learning foreign languages, considered a communicative and cultural necessity, demandsdeveloping reading skills that strengthen their domain and applicability according to the communicative needsand the social context. This research raised a general objective to apply didactic strategies with a digital tool ofweb 2.0 to develop the habit of reading in foreign languages in high school students. For this, a documentaryand field research was developed. The theoretical information was obtained from specialized bibliographies:books, brochures, magazines, and indexed articles. Data collection instruments such as interviews, surveys,and observation sheets were used. It was concluded that students are constantly exposed to reading throughschool books and information teachers share. Using digital tools is an essential benefit for developing readinghabits and acquiring a second language.Keywords: Reading, digital tools, strategies, didactic. ISSN-E: 2542-3401, ISSN-P: 1316-4821Universidad, Ciencia y Tecnología, Vol. 27, Núm. 118, (pp. 7-16)Matute C. et al. The Reading habit as a strength in learning foreign languagesMatute Castro George Roberthttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-7129-2050george.matute@unesum.edu.ecDocente de la Universidad Estatal delSur de Manabí y Docente de la UnidadEducativa Quince de OctubreJipijapa-Ecuador Resumen: El aprendizaje de idiomas extranjeros, al ser considerado como una necesidad comunicativa ycultural, demanda el desarrollo de habilidades lectoras que fortalezcan su dominio y aplicabilidad de acuerdolas necesidades comunicativas y al contexto social. Esta investigación tuvo como objetivo general aplicarestrategias didácticas con herramientas digitales de la web 2.0 para desarrollar el hábito de la lectura enidiomas extranjeros en los estudiantes del bachillerato. Para ello, se desarrolló una investigación documentaly de campo. La información teórica se obtuvo de bibliografía especializada: libros, folletos, revistas y artículosindexados. Se emplearon instrumentos de recolección de datos como entrevistas, encuestas y fichas deobservación. Se concluyó que los estudiantes están constantemente expuestos a la lectura a través de librosescolares e información que los docentes comparten, y que emplear herramientas digitales significa unimportante beneficio para el desarrollo del hábito lector y la adquisición de un segundo idioma.Palabras clave: : Lectura, herramientas digitales, estrategias, didáctica El hábito de la lectura como fortaleza en el aprendizaje de idiomas extranjeros 7Received (13/08/2022), Accepted (05/01/2023)Párraga Solórzano Rudy Jonathanhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-3155-4826rparraga@upse.edu.ec Docente Universidad Estatal Península deSanta ElenaSanta Elena-EcuadorMacías Solórzano Jennifer Valeriahttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6797-8930macias-jennifer1477@unesum.edu.ec Docente de la Universidad Estatal del Surde Manabí y Docente de la UnidadEducativa Manuel Inocencio parrales I GualeJipijapa-EcuadorTigua Anzules José Oswaldohttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-3856-7662 jose.tigua@unesum.edu.ec Docente de la Universidad Estatal del Surde Manabí y Docente de la UnidadEducativa Quince de OctubreJipijapa-Ecuadorhttps://doi.org/10.47460/uct.v27i118.682
I. INTRODUCTION Reading as an enriching action is not an indicator of learning or a determinant that allows establishing levelsof education or coefficients in the human being. On the contrary, it is essential to develop skills and abilitiesthat will enable the individual to acquire knowledge about different areas and topics of expertise. Education atits various levels assumes reading ability as an essential requirement for linguistic communication and contentassimilation. However, the present study visualizes and proposes to promote the reading habit so that thestudent (children and young people) become aware of their environment in their academic and socialdevelopment and that this process becomes part of their daily life.Reading is a significant and relevant factor in any formative process for children, so teaching and learning startlong before school and end long after. It ends with life. Understanding is an endless road. It can always beunderstood better, more extensively, and sincerely [1]. To achieve comprehension, it is essential to focus onthe didactics used by teachers since it is the central axis so that reading is presented as a constantlydeveloped and improved skill. The didactics of reading require their deepening and knowledge to recognizeand take advantage of their strengths and opportunities that allow them to act when frustrations arise.Reading as such is not an innate ability or acquired genetically; instead, it is accepted as the individual grows.Therefore, the first cycles of schooling are of great importance for the acquisition of reading, so thetechniques, methods, and activities to be developed must be started from this first instance to form a habit ofwanting from an early age and not in the tension of duty [2]. Therefore, this ability could even occur informative education from home, where the family environment plays a vital role for the individual. Thiscommunication aims to influence the need to structure reading comprehension in the school curriculum, aswell as remind families in particular and society in general of the fundamental role they play in the motivationand reading training of the student. This communication proposes to unify families and schools to worktogether on students' reading abilities.To discuss the school's responsibility concerning reading competence, we must start with the fact thatteachers assume full responsibility for students' reading competence. Therefore, the school's job is not tocreate good readers or lovers of literature but competent readers [3]. Teachers face a common problem:young people who suffer from an unprecedented lexical shortage, difficulty understanding sentences, misuseof punctuation marks, difficulty acquiring good notes, impersonal writing, reading problems in textbooks, andlack of criteria when debating. All these problems derive from the communicative aspect of language. In thissense, in the same way, each teacher is responsible for communicative competence. They are also teachers ofreading competence because there is only learning with communication and understanding.To these issues, which have a direct impact on the teaching task, it must be added that in recent decades thebook has lost its exclusivity as a central object in reading processes, to which is added the lack of researchactivities with direct bibliography in physical texts and the lack of management of these resources in theclassroom. The text has been expanded to form a plural text, a hybrid space, where the same digital or printedbook, electronic texts, and multimedia are mixed in a great mixture.Not only has the text changed, but the way of reading has also changed. Consumption, the ephemeral, thefragmentation, the spectacle, and surfing, are characteristics that directly contradict a task that is delayed,prolonged construction of time [4]. But it is that the current reader has also changed. It is a reader integratedinto a literate society with a strong presence of audiovisual media. Thus, cohesion and linearity in reading arebroken. The new reader grants significant autonomy to sequences or other minor discourse units, mixeselements of different genres, interrupt the narrative thread, and includes other texts within the narration. It isread differently because it is a reading adapted to the new market proposals [5].8ISSN-E: 2542-3401, ISSN-P: 1316-4821Universidad, Ciencia y Tecnología, Vol. 27, Núm. 118, (pp. 7-16)Matute C. et al. The Reading habit as a strength in learning foreign languages
The Ministry of Education is constantly monitoring faithful compliance with quality standards. For this reason,the teacher needs to apply a new methodology in such a way that he can develop learning strategies based onthe use of technological resources to meet the achievement of the objectives proposed in education [6]. The evolving technology of the 21st century requires continuous training in Web 2.0 tools. In this sense, it isvery important to be innovative to capture the attention of students and to be able to build meaningfullearning that allows them to develop their language skills and abilities to function in a new society. Developingthe habit of reading in the education process is fundamental. The student must be permanently induced inthe proper use of technological resources to achieve scientific training and thus can become a research,creative, and critical entity, that is to say, achieve the practical training of competent, visionary, andevolutionary professionals. Transforming education is the duty of every teacher, and fulfilling educationalpurposes is an institutional mandatory. This research aims to apply didactic strategies with a Web 2.0 digital tool to develop the habit of reading inhigh school students. For this, the teaching-learning process of foreign languages is established as an object ofstudy, and the development of the reading habit is delimited as a field of action.II. DEVELOPMENTCurrently, different technological tools allow students to interact with their environment. Adequate educationin managing the different constantly updated applications will lead to the acquisition of new learning that willallow access to these tools, achieving the development of the student's cognitive skills and the goals set ineducation. The new educational model requires the application of methodologies and techniques that allowmotivating the student in their intellectual self-enrichment, in the self-discipline of daily reading to developintellectual abilities and achieve an expressive language that allows them to develop as upright professionalscontributing significantly to the progress of the community [6].The new technologies allow access to all information for the self-education of a young person or adolescent.Digital reading involves the development of perceptive, associative, and reactive abilities in the face of variousevents presented in pages linked to each other, a world full of information whose access allows the teacher tointeract with the student, capture the attention, and achieve a relevant inter-learning. As a model ofinterpretation of reality, science allows training more critical, reflective, and responsible human beings tounderstand and question the world around them. Virtual platforms are intended to educate the student aboutdigital culture, and the proper use of websites will allow creative learning that entails double [3]. A. Didactic strategies to strengthen pedagogical processesIt indicates that they are procedures that the teaching agent uses reflectively and flexibly to promotesignificant learning achievement in students. Didactic strategies are based on methodological principles ashallmarks of specific educational performance. They are those actions that characterize them and allow themto be differentiated from other actions, depending on the moment in which the teaching-learning process ofthe group class they are directed is found [7]. 9ISSN-E: 2542-3401, ISSN-P: 1316-4821Universidad, Ciencia y Tecnología, Vol. 27, Núm. 118, (pp. 7-16)Matute C. et al. The Reading habit as a strength in learning foreign languages
The concept of didactic strategies involves selecting activities and pedagogical practices in different formativemoments, methods, and resources in the Teaching-Learning processes [8]. Didactic strategies contemplatelearning strategies and teaching strategies. For this reason, it is essential to define each one. Learningstrategies consist of a procedure or set of steps or skills that a student acquires and uses intentionally as aflexible tool to learn meaningfully and solve academic problems and demands. On the other hand, theteaching strategies are all those aids proposed by the teacher, which are provided to the student to facilitatedeeper information processing [9]. "Didactics is the art of teaching. As such, it is a discipline of pedagogy,registered in the educational sciences, which is in charge of the study and intervention in the teaching-learningprocess" [10]. That didactics is a pedagogical science. As part, it studies and elaborates on the elements and methodsnecessary to implement pedagogical theories. In this sense [11], didactics has two expressions: theoreticaland practical. At an academic level, didactics studies, analyzes, describes, and explains the teaching-learningprocess to generate knowledge about educational methods and postulate the rules and principles thatconstitute and guide the theory of teaching. In more technical terms, didactics is the branch of Pedagogy thatis in charge of finding methods and techniques to improve education and defining the guidelines to ensurethat knowledge reaches the educated more effectively [7]. Experts say that didactics is understood as a discipline of a scientific-pedagogical nature that focuses on eachof the stages of learning. In other words, it is the branch of pedagogy that allows approaching, analyzing, anddesigning the schemes and plans destined to capture the bases of each pedagogical theory. This discipline,which establishes the principles of education and serves teachers when selecting and developing content,pursues the purpose of ordering and supporting the teaching models and the learning plan. The teachingcircumstance for which specific elements are needed is called a didactic act: the teacher (who teaches), thestudent (who learns), and the learning context. Regarding the qualification of didactics, it can be understood indifferent ways: exclusively as a technique, as an applied science, simply as a theory, or as a basic science ofinstruction. The didactic models, for their part, can be characterized by a theoretical profile (descriptive,explanatory, and predictive) or technological (prescriptive and normative). It should be noted that, throughout history, education has progressed, and within the framework of theseadvances, didactic references have been modernized. On a practical level, for its part, didactics works asapplied science since, on the one hand, it uses teaching theories. At the same time, on the other, it intervenesin the educational process by proposing models, methods, and techniques that optimize the operations ofteaching-learning [12]. The task of teaching is a profession with eminently social purposes. It is the one thatoffers more significant and better opportunities to benefit others, for which reason teaching implies a greatresponsibility as well as great importance since education plays a fundamental role in the production anddirection of change at this moment in the history of the country. The teacher must know the didacticimplications of the epistemological nature of his discipline. When the teacher clearly distinguishes the differentways of learning, the student will be able to do so. The educator's clarity of these aspects will be perceived inhis methodological strategies; through them, the student can make the distinctions and syntheses necessaryfor a clear understanding [9]. B. Importance of reading for learningThe etymological meaning of reading originates in the Latin verb legere. It becomes very revealing because itconnotes collecting, harvesting, and acquiring fruit. Reading is an act by which meaning is given to facts, things,and phenomena and through which an encrypted message is also revealed, be it a map, a graph, or a text. Inthis way, it comes to be a response to the concern to know reality, but it is also the interest to know ourselves,all to deal with the messages in all kinds of materials.10ISSN-E: 2542-3401, ISSN-P: 1316-4821Universidad, Ciencia y Tecnología, Vol. 27, Núm. 118, (pp. 7-16)Matute C. et al. The Reading habit as a strength in learning foreign languages
In communication, reading becomes an act of harmony between an encrypted message of signs and man'sinner world; it is to become the recipient of an emission of symbols made in almost unpredictable times andplaces, remote or close. Still, at the same time, it is to make something very personal emerge, making itpossible for the identity that is congenital to us to emerge from the depths of our being. Reading is a process of interaction between the reader and the text, a process by which the former tries tosatisfy the objectives that guide the reading. Reading is entering into communication with the great thinkers ofall time. Reading is establishing a dialogue with the author, understanding his thoughts, discovering hispurposes, asking questions, and trying to find the answers in the text. Reading is also relating, criticizing, orovercoming the ideas expressed; it does not imply tacitly accepting any proposition but requires that theperson who is going to attack or offer another alternative fully understand what is being valued or questioned.The effectiveness of reading depends on these two aspects being sufficiently developed. This has someconsequences: 1) The active reader is the one who processes and examines the text; 2) Interpretation of whatis read, the meaning of the text is constructed by the reader [13]. Reading is characterized by translatingsymbols or letters into words and phrases that have meaning for a person. Once the emblem is deciphered, itis reproduced. Thus, the first phase of learning to read is linked to writing. The ultimate goal of reading is tomake it possible to understand written materials, evaluate them, and use them for our needs. C. Technology as support for the development of the reading habit Technological development has affected all activities of the society. Society has never been as articulated as itis today around technologies, domestically, culturally, politically, and socially, without forgetting the impact ithas had on education. These technological changes have impacted all walks of life [14]. Regarding theprocessing of information. [15] it has generated changes in two ways; on the one hand, in the diversification ofinformation supports, new information supports are being developed more and more quickly, and othersremain in disuse, which not only generates a problem in terms of the migration of supports so as not to loseinformation, but also the adequacy of the guidelines and standards to process the information in the newsupports. On the other hand, technological development directly affects the tools and instruments available toteachers to process the information contained in the different supports. The bibliographic records and datafound in the texts have undergone a deep and constant evolution along with technological development [15]. Web 2.0 implies collaboration, networking, links related to shared interests, and social networks. The wealthand educational possibilities that open up are enormous, so it is interesting to analyze the main educationalapplications of Web 2.0 technologies that could support education, specifically for developing reading habits[16]. There are countless representative applications of these tools. The most used currently in thisenvironment are blogs, wikis, and social networks, although, in this study, we work with two: blogs and wikis.The reason for choosing it is the potential they present as tools of the constructivist model for studentlearning [17]. Although indeed, the habitual use of such devices does not make their theoretical analysisessential, it is just as accurate that when you want to face their use in certain contexts, in this specific case ineducation, it is necessary to know what you are talking about, what characteristics it responds to in socialterms to address its historical evolution, the technological framework where they are born and develop, andtheir technical, educational or didactic characteristics, to assess their implications in the teaching-learningprocess. The Web provides a medium for collaboration, social dialogue, interaction, and communication, wherestudents can learn formally and informally through interactions with other students. Accessibility, flexibility,and self-directed learning can lead to new ways of learning. Yet, these possibilities raise essential questionsand challenges for teachers [18]. Therefore, the activities require a reflection on the part of the teaching staffon the functional nature and the significance of the learning they intend to develop.11ISSN-E: 2542-3401, ISSN-P: 1316-4821Universidad, Ciencia y Tecnología, Vol. 27, Núm. 118, (pp. 7-16)Matute C. et al. The Reading habit as a strength in learning foreign languages
12 Suppose we understand learning activities as active and orderly ways of carrying out learning experiencesthat include everything from the prior knowledge that every student possesses to the assessment of acquiredskills. In that case, they become a teaching strategy, but also a learning, for which they must be well plannedand, why not, subject to the viability of the technological tools available. The relationship between technology and pedagogy is complex and symbiotic. Faced with the perspective"they are only tools" in certain educational circles, the perspective of "they are nothing less than tools" ispreferred, with which human beings transform the world and, in doing so, transform themselves. Technologyand pedagogy influence each other. Technology shapes educational practice by offering possibilities andlimitations teachers must know how to “see.” Educational practice shapes the use and implementation oftechnology, evolves it, and makes it an inseparable part of the practice [19]. It is impossible to abstract fromthe underlying technologies when talking about the applications that use them. The term "emergingtechnologies" has been coined to define those technologies that are not yet widespread and used, whoseimpact is incipient but which generate great expectations. Technologies and uses that will be important in thefuture have been referenced, constituting almost a genre within what could be called “futuristic” reports oneducation and ICTs. The ideas that make up this definition can be understood as applicable to tools (hardwareand software) and their use in Teaching-Learning processes [19]. Many opinions consider interesting the use of the Internet in the teaching field, and it is even possible tohighlight good proposals for the preparation of Teaching-Learning activities in the classroom. Web 2.0 offersnew functionalities that make it possible to speak of the internet as a great source of resources and a platformfor working with those resources. The challenge faced with so many possibilities is to know how to choose themost appropriate one for the desired purpose and the age group the teacher is targeting. Still, since theInternet environment is similar to the natural environment, it should be fine to find a suitable activity [20]. Likeany other didactic resource, ICTs enable the development and implementation of different learning tasks of adiverse nature, being able to carry out activities such as [21]: 1) search, select, and analyze information on theinternet with a determined purpose; 2) acquire skills and abilities to manage different technological tools andresources (manage software, manage an operating system, among others); 3) complete and carry out differentlearning tasks (write written texts, prepare multimedia presentations, solve exercises and online games,develop work projects, publicly present work, communicate and work collaboratively -blogs, wikis, socialnetworks, forums, express themselves and disseminate ideas and work, etc.). Using these tools, the teacher can assess the final result of the work and the cooperative skills and abilities ofthe group members. Spending ten minutes per work group is enough to check how they have carried out theplanning, coordination, and materials, among others. We have everything online, so it is easy to follow up andparticipate in group work [22]. The vision is that personalization, collaboration, and informal learning will be atthe core of learning in the future. These terms are not new to education or training, but they will become theguiding principle for educational organizations. The opinion of the experts underlines and confirms that in thenext fifteen years, the learning strategies will be: personalized, tailored, and directed; collaborative andnetworked; and informal and flexible. ICTs will play an essential role in facilitating lifelong learningopportunities as a range of sophisticated and adaptive learning tools, and programs will become available,making it easier for people to improve their skills and boost their careers [23]. Web 2.0 marks a dividing line regarding a significant change in practices. Several factors contribute to thischange, such as advances in technological infrastructure; increased Internet and broadband adoption; andfriendlier interfaces for browsing, filing, communicating, and collaborating on the Web. All of them havecontributed to broadening user access and participation. In OECD countries, web services are progressivelycheaper, faster, and increasingly based on wireless technologies. Similar advances have matched access andspeed in software development and data management. Common browsers have become more versatile,allowing a wide range of user interactions and interoperability with numerous desktop applications [24].ISSN-E: 2542-3401, ISSN-P: 1316-4821Universidad, Ciencia y Tecnología, Vol. 27, Núm. 118, (pp. 7-16)Matute C. et al. The Reading habit as a strength in learning foreign languages
13III. METHODOLOGYThis research is considered in a qualitative and quantitative approach from which information is obtainedthrough resources such as interviews, surveys, and observations that support the strengths or deficienciesthat students have in terms of reading skills and the use of technological tools for this purpose and thus havea holistic vision of the problem to be investigated. In this regard, it is considered that "the qualitative approachuses the collection and analysis of data to refine the research questions or reveal new questions in theinterpretation process" [25].The research is documentary and field, and the theoretical information was obtained from specializedbibliography: books, brochures, magazines, and indexed articles. The field research is supported by surveys, aswell as interviews, which were carried out in the educational institution, for which there was the support of theteacher who guided the students and parents for the excellent collection of information. The documentaryresearch allowed the bibliographic compilation and the postulations of several essential authors to argue thestudy; references were taken from books, journals, magazines, etc., which allowed us to conceptualize thephenomena and facts and thus establish the criteria of analysis and the solutions. It is also a constructivistinvestigation since it will enable those involved to be the creators of their knowledge, motivating their self-preparation based on their cognitive needs.The methods that were used in the development of the investigation are the theoretical methods: theinduction-deduction way is an analytical-synthetic process through which the study of a particular fact will startto arrive at the discovery of a principle, this method follows the following steps: observation, experimentation,comparison, abstraction and generalization [26]. On the other hand, the quantitative approach is based onestablished knowledge, that means, from a theory from which it extracts specific explanations about facts orsituations that are intended to be verified [27]. From this perspective, this method is analytical and positivist,always based on the numbers or amounts of data collected, which allows for generating a field investigation[28]. In this sense, it is considered a central part of the data collection of the reading habit. Furthermore, thestatistical percentage helps to establish precise data before the information is collected, estimating to analyzethe level of the reading habits that the students present, allowing to have a clear and readable picture of whathappens through the process.IV. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONBased on the proposed hypothesis, it is established that ICTs will not solve any learning situation, but,obviously, by adopting new pedagogical approaches, such as the use of Web 2.0 digital tools, they allowinteraction by playing new roles for both the teacher and the students in different inputs such as autonomous,collaborative, critical, creative work, personal expression, sharing resources, creating knowledge and above alllearning based on their own experiences and interests. Furthermore, applying resources such as Web 2.0provides highly accessible environments where teachers and students can reflect on educational settings bycreating, designing, and sharing resources through individual or collective contributions that enrich teacherlearning and practice.Based on the research objective, relevant results are obtained on the importance of developing andimplementing didactic strategies for developing and improving reading skills at school. Furthermore, eventhough the research was directed to the second year of high school, these same strategies can be applied atdifferent educational levels since it uses student domain tools such as social networks, E-learning platforms,blogs, Wikis, and Postcards, among others.The technological means currently used in the educational field offer various purposes, academically, culturally,and socially, as part of the individual's interaction. For example, resources such as cell phones, tablets, andcomputers allow teachers and students to develop activities during and after class. That is, they are createdduring the personalized tutoring of the decent and the tutoring of professionals on the web. This conditionallows the student to investigate, compare, contrast, and learn from different sources, reaffirming knowledge.ISSN-E: 2542-3401, ISSN-P: 1316-4821Universidad, Ciencia y Tecnología, Vol. 27, Núm. 118, (pp. 7-16)Matute C. et al. The Reading habit as a strength in learning foreign languages
14The accessibility of the resources and information on the Web encourages the investigative interest of thestudent, who naturally develops reading habits in the search for content, analysis, simplification of information,and production of new knowledge. Under these premises, the student develops skills such as analysis andcontent support that allow them to abstract specific details according to the purpose of the study. It is worthmentioning that years ago, this activity was carried out strictly with physical texts through the library and that inrecent years it has been replaced by computerized management through the Web.Based on interviews conducted with teachers in the area of Language and Literature and as experts on thesubject and the development of reading habits, it is synthesized that high school students do not carry outreading activities voluntarily but rather as an obligation or academic requirement to pass a particular subject.This activity incurs memorization processes, which means the student does not reflect, assume or contrastinformation for his learning. On the contrary, he develops unidirectional thinking behaviors that, by not beingreflective, he will forget the manipulated data in the short term. This is one of the primary deficiencies theeducational system has with young people who need more knowledge and cannot substantiate, argue ordefend criteria on a particular topic.However, there are difficulties regarding applying technological tools to develop skills such as reading. This isbecause digital divides continue to be a sad reality in society. The low economic income in the homes, thesecondary education, the lack of adequate infrastructure in the educational establishments, the deficientcomputer management in teachers, and even specific geographical barriers in different sectors limit or makecommunication through the Web impossible. Moreover, the current emerging educational model caused bythe Covid-19 pandemic exposed the severe problems of education in a digital environment becauseeducational systems have yet to evolve hand in hand with computerized environments.Based on the surveys applied to the students, the following can be interpreted.The activities or contents developed within the class are not on the student's cognitive, communicative, orsocial interests. Much of the information in school textbooks is considered difficult to understand and, in somecases, absurd content since they need help finding a way to apply it in their environment.Students show great interest in being part of a didactic strategy that changes the traditional paradigms ofeducation towards digital education, promoting the habit of reading based on texts, documents, andinformation that arouses their interest. Given this, using E-learning platforms as part of Web 2.0 means thatthe student can use websites as if they were an application or programs in which they will have access to auser and an account to develop individual and cooperative activities associated with different subjects. In otherwords, each student can analyze texts or contents individually and then be exposed to group criteria, ideas, orperceptions. This not only generates the development of the reading habit but also promotes communicativepractice as a social need to interact with the environment.CONCLUSIONSStudents are constantly exposed to reading through school books and information that teachers constantlyshare. However, there needs to be an agreed analysis on the quality of shared information or the purpose forwhich said content is studied. This is because students' time to read is limited, so it must be strengthened as acommunicative activity from home. It has yet to be strengthened as a reading habit at school or home. In thiscontext, the reading habit is partially distanced from the educational purposes that the national curriculumcontemplates for the mastery of learning.For this, it is essential to take advantage of the opportunity for students to interact with digital media andresources constantly. Still, it does not mean that they are pedagogically prepared to direct the use of thesemedia toward learning. It is in this space where innovative teaching action should be focused.ISSN-E: 2542-3401, ISSN-P: 1316-4821Universidad, Ciencia y Tecnología, Vol. 27, Núm. 118, (pp. 7-16)Matute C. et al. The Reading habit as a strength in learning foreign languages
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16LOS AUTORESGeorge Robert Matute Castro, Teacher at Universidad Estatal del Sur de Manabí.Teacher at the Quince de Octubre Educational Unit, with a scholarship from theMinistry of Education, "Go, Teacher." Researcher, teacher, and author of scientificarticles published in indexed journals.Jennifer Valeria Macías Solórzano, Teacher at the Universidad Estatal del Sur deManabí. Teacher at the Manuel Inocencio Parrales I Guale Educational Unit, Teacherwith a scholarship from the Ministry of Education "Go, Teacher". Researcher teacherand author of scientific articles published in indexed journals.Rudy Jonathan Párraga Solórzano, Bachelor of Science in Education, mentionsEnglish, Italian and Spanish with a Master in Teaching English as a Foreign Language. D.Candidate in Education at the Universidad Nacional del Rosario Argentina. Teacher atthe Peninsula de Santa Elena State University in the career of Pedagogy of Nationaland Foreign Languages.ISSN-E: 2542-3401, ISSN-P: 1316-4821Universidad, Ciencia y Tecnología, Vol. 27, Núm. 118, (pp. 7-16)José Oswaldo Tigua Anzules, Engineer in Ecotourism, Master in English LanguageTeaching. Teacher at the Universidad Estatal del Sur de Manabí. Teacher at the Quincede Octubre Educational Unit, with a scholarship from the Ministry of Education "GoTeacher." Researcher, teacher, and author of scientific articles.Matute C. et al. The Reading habit as a strength in learning foreign languages