Reading and writing have had, in the last
decades, an important development on research from fields such as linguistics,
semiotics, psychology, anthropology, sociology, literature, philosophy,
pedagogy and education, among others. This has made possible the emergence of
new theoretical and methodological perspectives that suggest the importance of
effectuating changes in their understanding and practice, and in the way they
are addressed in the teaching and learning processes, on the different
educational levels.
In the Higher Education level,
specifically, the encouragement of reading and writing skills is gaining ground
due to the essential relations that these have with the academic success or
failure and the connection it has with the institutional and State policies of
quality assurance.
On this sense, the Linguistics, Speech Therapy,
Spanish and Literature, Education and Pedagogy and Intercultural Studies
Departments, present to the university community a proposal titled “GENERAL
GUIDELINES FOR THE READING AND WRITING COURSE”, with the purpose of being
developed within the policy framework of Integral Social and Human Training (FISH),
on the line of Society, Art, Language and Culture in the various Undergraduate programs
in the University of Cauca, following the institutional requirements stated on
the Agreement nr. 1 on the 30th of January 2007.
The purposes behind this proposal are: to
recognize reading and writing as complex processes that are essential for the
university education; to transform the ideas and practices on reading and
writing; to develop abilities for reading and writing in the university; to
contribute to the processes and practices of research training through Reading
and writing.