Promoción de la lectura por medio de la lectura en voz alta en la radio comunitaria: estudio diagnóstico

Abstract

At school, reading aloud is mechanical, repetitive, and meaningless. It has neither purpose nor real audience. This perception is away from its social and aesthetic sense: a communication experience that develops competence motivates and emerges emotions in social settings where occurs. This paper intends to take advance its social potential to promote reading. As part of a larger study on the formation of children as reading promoters through radio broadcasting, results of the diagnostic phase are reported, whose purpose was to know how a group of 27 primary school students from Lobatera, Tachira state, read aloud. Children were classified into three groups: fluid reader, moderately fluent reader and little fluid reader. Children classified as “fluent readers” demonstrated suitability in: voice volume, words articulation, pauses and intonation. In spite of these strengths, some weaknesses related to inadequate realization of pauses and intonation of exclamation and interrogation, and expressive reading persist.