a) Obtaining and contributing empirical data on the correlations between scant mastery of reading comprehension and deficits in language mastery in general, and between these aspects and academic failure.

b) Producing scientific work and teaching materials to programme and carry into practice the most effective teaching of reading comprehension.

c) Analysing the possible correlation between the teaching of literature and the results in reading comprehension of pupils who are studying the presence and treatment of literary reading (canon of texts and authors, contents, activities, etc.) in secondary school classrooms.