Abstract:

In various activities of everyday life we constantly create and interpret different types of texts. We usually start to learn how to interpret written texts in the first year of primary school and our reading comprehension competencies are continually developed till the end of school education. From this follows that the school education has a crucial role in developing the learners' reading comprehension competencies. The aim of our paper is to analyse the education's expectations regarding the secondary grammar school students' reading comprehension skills in Slovakia based on the official educational documents. We analyse the aims of the National Institute for Education documents of the school subject Hungarian language and literature from the point of view of expected reading comprehension abilities which should be acquired from the given subject during the years of secondary education based on these documents. Moreover, we compare the reading comprehension competency requirements to be achieved by the above mentioned documents with the actual text comprehension skills of high school students using the results of our reading comprehension survey among Hungarian secondary school students in Slovakia.

Keywords:

Reading comprehension, Hungarian minority, secondary school students, National Institute for Education.