The young adult alternative: re-designing a reading promotion plan for the English subject in the first year of Bachillerato = La alternativa young adult: rediseñando un plan de fomento de la lectura para inglés en primero de Bachillerato

Abstract

The aim of this master thesis is to re-elaborate an attractive, feasible and innovative Reading Promotion Plan for the English subject in the first year of Bachillerato, based on Young Adult fiction. The original Plan was chosen from a public high school in the city of León, in the north of Spain. It contained just a few guidelines for the implementation of reading activities in every subject. With this as its foundation, and sustaining the work on the Spanish Educational Organic Law (L.O.E.) and the modifications introduced by the Educational Quality Improvement Organic Law (L.O.M.C.E.), as well as on the basis set by the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment (CEFR), an authentic proposal for the implementation of compulsory Reading Promotion Plans in the English subject in Bachillerato is described. Its design has strong roots in the development of the student’s civic, aesthetic, critical and democratic competences, and it is primarily focused on the objective of making literature or, in terms of EFL skills, reading, attractive and pleasant for them. To do so, research stages were fulfilled, creating and passing a survey to actual students and teachers in order to assess the degree of satisfaction and consecution of several objectives stated in the original plan. The results were analyzed and weak aspects of the current design and development of the plan were highlighted