Hábitos lectores y competencias básicas en el alumnado de educación secundaria obligatoria

Abstract

This paper focuses on the analysis of the relationship between reading habits and learning. We have used the survey as main research methodology, taking into account the results of the diagnostic tests applied on Andalusian schools at the beginning of the academic year 2008/2009. The subjects in the sample are 82,921 students of public and private stataly financed schools pertaining to the third year of Compulsory Secondary Education. The study reveals that a frequent reading of literary texts with a recreational purpose is associated to high levels of competence in mathematical, linguistic and scientific domains. However, the frequency of instrumental reading, just devoted to the finding of information or the participation in communicative situations in Internet, is not related to different learning levels.