Maestría en Enseñanza del Idioma Inglés como Lengua Extranjera
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Item Short stories in English reading comprehension(Universidad Técnica de Ambato. Dirección de Posgrado. Maestria en la Enseñanza del Idioma Inglés como Lengua Extranjera, 2019-06) Chico Constante, Ligia Adriana; Vera de la Torre, Ana JazminaThis research is based on the application of five short stories, as tools for the development of reading comprehension in students from seventh year at Unidad Educativa "San Pio X" of Ambato city who presented a low level of reading comprehension in the English area. The main objective of this work was to investigate the influence of short stories on the development of reading comprehension. Based on the application of a survey, it was determined that in the material used by teachers the use of short stories is not applied, while students are interested in them. The study was carried out using a quali-quantitative method, with quasi-experimental design, the pre and post-test measurements were taken from Cambridge's Key English Test (KET); to determine statistically significant differences in the reading comprehension process of two groups of students; by applying a reading project based on the use of short stories to develop reading comprehension in English; It was performed by a population of 60 students, 30 of them constituted the control group and the other 30 the experimental group. The control group was evaluated after having used the textbook as the only teaching material, while in the experimental group the evaluation was applied after having received classes using a manual of short stories carefully chosen for this proposal. The results indicate that the students of the experimental group demonstrated at the end of the project a remarkable development in the reading comprehension. Since students now have a greater capacity for reading comprehension, vocabulary, detailed and general understanding after reading a text. In contrast to the control group students who had a lesser development of reading comprehension skills, based on the use of the English text. Therefore, through this research, it was determined that the use of short stories directly influences the development of reading comprehension, and teachers are required to begin to use the stories as a support to the English teaching - learning process