La alfabetización académica universitaria a examen: una propuesta para leer y dialogar con el mundo

Abstract

Contemporary literacy practices indicate that we face new challenges: reading and writing in the 21st century is far from what was understood about these activities in past centuries. This change also reverts to the competencies that, from the university level, are expected to be developed by students. In this research a pedagogical experience of promoting academic literacy is reported, and carried out at the Abat Oliba CEU University during the 2017-2018 academic year in the framework of a project of innovation and improvement of teaching quality. It consists of the creation of a student’s journal “Letras de Batalla: debate academico actual”: the motivations and objectives of the project, its methodology and implementation phases, are described. Finally, it the relationship between expected results and results obtained at the end of the edition of the first issue is detailed, published online and with its own ISSN. Thus, the journal allows us to verify that, through the production of academic articles, students improve their reading skills and naturally assume these literacy practices while also increasing their abilities to understand and engage with the world around them and master the skills necessary for integration into society.