DIAZ DIAZ, ALEX MAURICIORhenals Jiménez, María Alexandra2023-12-142023-12-142023-12-14https://repositorio.unicordoba.edu.co/handle/ucordoba/7973Reading comprehension is an important skill on EFL teaching process, this skill represents understanding of text. This study conducted and action research to explore how the use of genrebased approach and comics encouraged 7th grader’s reading comprehensions skill in a public school in Monteria, Cordoba. This qualitative study uses different techniques to collect data and create the intervention plan, following the action research cycle. Findings of this research demonstrate that students positively improve their reading skill after the application of Genre Based approach and comic, students were able to make critical inferences of the comics analyzed during each stage of the GBA: Modeling, Joint construction, and independent construction of the text. The results demonstrate that students not only improve this skill, also the obtain an enhance o their writing skill, vocabulary acquisition and engagement during English classes. This study demonstrates the importance of applying innovating strategies that engaged students with this important skill.1. INTRODUCTION 92. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK 122.1. English as a Foreign Language 122.2. Teaching English in Secondary 132.3. Genre Based Approach 142.4. Reading Comprehension 162.5. Comics 172.6. Literature Review 183. METHOD 223.1. Methodology and Research Question 223.2. Context and Participants 253.3. Data Collection 253.3.1. Observation 263.3.2. Interviews 263.3.3. Production Tasks 273.3.4. Learning Unit 283.4. Data Analysis 294. FINDINGS 314.1. Student’s struggles on reading comprehension 314.2. Alignment from Genre Based Approach Intervention 334.2.1. Session 1. Gender Discrimination on sports 334.2.2. Session 2. Face the future 374.2.3. Session 3. Fight with a girl 404.2.4. Independent construction of the comic 434.3. Student’s perception of reading comprehension 454.4. Student’s reading comprehension improvement. 485. DISCUSSION 516. CONCLUSION 54REFERENCES 57APPENDIX 63Appendix A. Learning units 63Appendix B. Interview 71Appendix C. Rubric for observation 72Appendix D. Teacher’s experience 73Appendix E. Post inferential test 75Copyright Universidad de Córdoba, 2023Trabajo de grado - PregradoAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 4.0 Internacional (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessComprensión lectoraEnfoque basado en génerosCómicsReading comprehensionGenre based approachComicsUniversidad de CórdobaRepositorio Universidad de Córdobahttps://repositorio.unicordoba.edu.co/http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2