Reading comprehension of instrumental English of biomedical engineering students at the National Experimental University "Francisco de Miranda"

Abstract

The general objective of this study is to evaluate the reading comprehension of instrumental English in biomedical engineering students at the National. The Constructivist Theory of Piaget (1973) and Vygotsky (1979), who concur in proposing that true human learning is a construction of each individual to achieve a higher level of complexity, theoretically support the study. Regarding its methodology, this study is conducted under the positivist paradigm and is considered non-experimental field research with a descriptive level. This led to the application of the survey technique, the latter through the use of a 15-item questionnaire in a sample of teachers who teach Instrumental English at the Francisco de Miranda National Experimental University. The analysis of the results led to the conclusion that students taking instrumental English do not practice reading to communicate topics to an audience in class, nor do they report on their understanding of the readings they do. Therefore, they only read to obtain specific information to learn in each unit of study.