Reading Strategies of L2 Spanish Basic Users with an Immigrant Background. Estrategias de Lectura en Usuarias Basicas de ele de Origen Inmigrante.

Abstract

This article analyzes the reading strategies used by three immigrant L2 Spanish learners in their everyday reading in Spanish. A pre-test was utilised to gauge the students' reading competence, and data regarding the representative everyday text genres as well as reading strategies were collected by using specific tools for this research context. The results justified the classification of the strategies in four groups, according to the learners' level of skill, which would be used in the future to implement a reading strategy training. Furthermore, striking differences were observed among the students' performance, which suggested the necessity of restructuring the group, although the lack of resources in this educational context would impede that solution. This fact reflected a common dilemma within L2 teaching to immigrants.