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Now a days, studies that evaluate the quality of teaching in Panama point that at the primary level, students do not achieve an acceptable performance in reading and writing. These processes provide the initial basis for meaningful learning and the development of communicative skills; that is why it is necessary to investigative this issue. The objective of this research is the analysis of the current methodological trends in the teaching of reading, writing and its effect on the acquisition of communicative skills in students at the primary level in the highland Educational Centers. In the methodological design, a mixed approach was used , integrating the quantitative and qualitative approaches; a non-
experimental transverse design, the scope of the descriptive correlational study. The intervention consisted in the application of a survey, involving 98 teachers, 306 parents and 112 students. The results obtained corroborate that the methods, approaches and techniques, contrasted witch communicative competences, show that the methodology currently used does not favor the acquisition of communicative competences. This research through the analysis concluded that students develop a level of reading and writing that only focuses on identifying explicit information in texts. Students are not able to understand, interpret, argue, pose hypothetical questions, express orally, write their experiences and personal ideas, wich does not benefit the development of communicative skills.
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