Abstract:In this investigation we report results from a qualitative case study focused on Spanish as a second language teaching context in Chile. With the aim of exploring the relation between curricular material characteristics, topic familiarity and topic interest in reading tasks data has been collected from sixty-four participants using three instruments. The first one is a survey to know more about student's previous experience with reading in their country. The second is a semi structured interview held with prof… Show more
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