ABSTRACT

The purpose of the research is to analyze the relationship between language skills and reading comprehension in students of the Puno Polytechnic Educational Institution. The research design being the non-experimental quantitative approach, with a population universe of 240 students distributed in five grades and with a sample of 148 students of intentional probabilistic type. For data collection, observation techniques were used complemented by the evaluation of reading comprehension processed with SPSS. On the other hand, the instruments used were: the observation sheet of linguistic skills and the proof of understanding of texts, which consists of three levels: literal, inferential and critical. In conclusion, it is indicated that the levels of development of linguistic skills showed a considerable degree of positive covariation (Rho s 0.616*) in relation to the reading comprehension represented by 61.6%, all supported by the states that obtained that allowed to affirm the effectiveness of the applied technique.