Reading comprehension skills in English as a foreign language for Spanish speaker students

L2 reading skills of Spanish native speakers: the present dataset reports aimed at measuring English as a foreign language (EFL) reading comprehension by means of an audiovisual instructional approach. This consisted in examining different reading tasks before and after an intervention programme based on audiovisual media in EFL classes in a Spanish-speaker population of elementary and secondary school students in a rural area of southern Spain (10-14 years).