The portfolio as an educational tool in the acquisition of the reading comprehension competence of english as a foreign language in 9th grade students of the colegio Águeda Gallardo de Villamizar educational institution

Abstract

The present article, emergence of the implementation of the "portfolio" as an educational tool in the acquisition of the competence of the reading comprehension of the English as a foreign language in 9th grade students of the colegio Águeda Gallardo de Villamizar educational institution, starting from the competency standards of the Ministry of National Education, where it is stipulated that students say, must be at a B1 level, this was achieved part of a diagnostic stage where different flaws were established in the students, stories such as scarce vocabulary, lack of sequentiality in reading, and bad pronunciation, from the comprehension of texts in English. Therefore, taking into account the above, the portfolio of the Information and Language Research Information Center (CILT) was adapted and implemented, which was shown as a great receptivity in the students that in turn arose in a job, and from the perspective of understanding the English language, it should be noted that at the end of the application of the different activities, a qualitative evaluation of the implemented strategy was carried out, where it was found that the portfolio as a teaching tool is really very useful, which is this a different and dynamic way of learning, another language, also contributing to the significant learning of english as a foreign language.