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    Educative Podcasts and Speaking Skills
    (Universidad Técnica de Ambato-Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y de la educación -Carrera de Pedagogía de los Idiomas Nacionales y Extranjeros, 2025-01-22) Solís López Belén Elizabeth; Vera de la Torre Ana Jazmina; Universidad Técnica de Ambato-Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y de la educación -Carrera de Pedagogía de los Idiomas Nacionales y Extranjeros
    This study was developed to investigate the impact of educative podcasts on the English language speaking skills of students in the second year of bachillerato general unificado (BGU) of the "Sagrada Familia" high school in Ambato, Ecuador. A quasi-experimental design with a quantitative approach was used, where the control group consisted of 23 students and the experimental group of 24 students, all around 16 to 17 years old. After 8 sessions in which students listened to educative podcasts on topics such as the weather, cooking, pronunciation of past verbs, future plans, among others, together with content on simple, perfect, and progressive grammatical tenses, an improvement in aspects such as pronunciation, grammatical organization, discourse management, and interactive communication was observed in the members of the experimental group, while the control group showed a decline in the same parameters. In order to evaluate the students' progress, the first two parts of the speaking paper of the Cambridge B1 Preliminary (PET) exam were used for the pre and post-test, as well as the Cambridge B1 rubric. The study concluded that the impact of using educational podcasts to develop and improve English speaking skills was positive, as the students were able to express themselves through the correct use of English language skills such as fluency, correct pronunciation of words and phrases, appropriate intonation, among others. and demonstrated more confidence than at the beginning of the interventions.