Maestría en Enseñanza del Idioma Inglés como Lengua Extranjera
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Item Active learning activities to improve speaking skills(2025-03) Ambuludí Pardo, Paola Karina; Cundar Ruano, Adriana XimenaEsta disertación tuvo como objetivo mejorar las habilidades de expresión oral mediante el uso de actividades de aprendizaje activo entre estudiantes de quinto grado enuna escuelaprivada en laciudadde Loja. Este estudio se centró en una metodología de investigación cuantitativa con un diseño de investigación-acción. La población objetivo estuvo compuestaportreintay siete estudiantes de quinto grado. Las técnicas de recolección de datos incluyeron un pretesty un postest con sus respectivos cuestionarios centrados en habilidades de expresión oral. Además, seutilizó una lista de observación para registrar las actitudesy el desempeño elosestudiantes durante la fase de intervención. Actividades de aprendizaje activo como el sombrero verde de pensamiento, sombrero rojo de pensamiento, lluvia de ideas, juego de roles, mapa mental, compartir ideas en parejasy entrevistas fueron analizadas teóricamente. Adicionalmente, las habilidades de expresión oral de los estudiantes al inicioy al final del tratamiento fueron evaluadasa través del componente oral del examenAl Movers, de Cambridge Assessment. Para obtener datos numéricos, se empleó una rúbrica que incluía tres criterios principales: vocabularioy gramática, pronunciacióne interacción. El pretest reveló un bajo nivel de rendimiento en expresión oral al inicio de la investigación. Después del pretest, el investigador diseñó una propuesta de intervención para implementar actividades de aprendizaje activo y mejorar las habilidades de expresión oral. Esta propuesta fue llevada a cabo durante diez días con los niños de quinto grado. El investigador utilizó una lista de observación que fue aplicada durante las clases. Los principales hallazgos de la lista de observación fueron las actitudes de los estudiantes hacia su práctica de expresión oral. Además, los estudiantes mostraron más confianza y motivación hacia su desempeño oral mientras interactuaban con otros. Los planes de lección incluyeron actividades de aprendizaje.Item Strategies and techniques based on fleming´s VARK Model to develop the English language skills in the students of third year of baccalaureate at “Primero de Abril High School(Universidad Técnica de Ambato. Dirección de Posgrado. Maestria en la Enseñanza del Idioma Inglés como Lengua Extranjera, 2019-10) Vaca Alarcón, Ángel Gustavo; Ortega Andrade, Dolores del RocíoThis research was aimed at analyzing the effect of learning strategies based on Fleming´s VARK model on the development of the four speaking skills in the English language of third year BGU students at “Primero de Abril” school in Latacunga-Quito. This research was based on a qualitative and quantitative approach. It was a quasi-experimental design and a single group was used. The subjects considered for this research were the 33 students of senior school. The group was formed by 13 girls and 10 boys. The students had a B1.2 level in the English language. Data collection took place by the application of a survey and a pretest and a posttest. The VARK questionnaire was conducted with the purpose of identifying the learning styles of the students and through the application of the pretest and posttest it was possible to identify the English language proficiency level of the students. Both the survey and the pretest were applied at the beginning of the proposal and the posttest was conducted at the end of this. The strategies handbook was implemented in a period of 4 weeks at the beginning of the school year 2018-2019. The outcomes proved that the use of the Vark strategies achieved the improvement of the students’ results in the four English language skills at Unidad Educativa “Primero de Abril” validating the effectiveness of the proposal.Item Intensive reading strategies to develop the oral interaction(Universidad Técnica de Ambato. Dirección de Posgrado. Maestria en la Enseñanza del Idioma Inglés como Lengua Extranjera, 2019-09) Santamaría Serrano, Jorge Santiago; Sulca Guale, Manuel XavierThis research work was focused on evaluating oral interaction as a result of exposure to intensive reading material in the Fourth semester students of Escuela Politécnica Superior de Chimborazo of Riobamba, Chimborazo. A pre-test as an assessment instrument was applied, the data collection was done and, so, it was evident the lack of use of intensive reading material within classrooms to promote the development of oral interaction in students. The results were analyzed using T-student statistical test to check the validation of hypothesis. A population of 25 students was considered and the present research was carried out demonstrating that intensive reading provides a better practice of oral interaction, promoting the communicative process of students in the English language. The result was 3.75. Due to this very favorable result, this study concluded in the creation of a methodological guide including the application of intensive reading material within the class to improve oral interaction. The methodological guide also includes a rubric for evaluating activities and thus to verify the advance of the students. This is why, the use of intensive reading material is suggested to reinforce oral interaction based on the results.Item British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) authentic videos for speaking skill development(Universidad Técnica de Ambato. Dirección de Posgrado. Maestria en la Enseñanza del Idioma Inglés como Lengua Extranjera, 2019) Zurita Valencia, Carlos Eduardo; Silva Chávez, Judith AlexandraThis study was aimed at determining the effect of using British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) authentic videos in the development of the speaking skill of 8th grade students. This study took place at Unidad Educativa “Primicias de la Cultura de Quito” in Ecuador during the academic year 2018-2019. The population consisted of 50 students. 25 of them belonged to the control group and the other 25 to the experimental group. These participants were the target to determine the effect of using authentic videos in the English class to develop the speaking skill. This was a quali-quantitative research of a descriptive study and was based on the results of a survey applied to EGB students who received the treatment implemented and a pretest and a posttest conducted to all the participants of the study. It was carried out during six weeks, from November 5th to December 14th, 2018. Twelve different speaking activities based on BBC authentic videos were used during the intervention process to teach vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation and fluency. An improvement on the students’ speaking skills was revealed in the posttest results after the speaking activities were applied in the English class.Item Authentic audiovisual material for English oral expression development(Universidad Técnica de Ambato. Dirección de Posgrado. Maestria en la Enseñanza del Idioma Inglés como Lengua Extranjera, 2019-02) Manzano Pérez, Rodrigo Javier; Vera de la Torre, Ana JazminaThe work presented below has been focused on evaluating oral expression as a result of exposure to authentic audiovisual material in the First-Year students of Unified General Baccalaureate of the Unidad Educativa "Rumiñahui" of Ambato, in Tungurahua province. With the help of a pre-test as an assessment instrument, the data collection was done and, in this way, it was evident the lack of use of authentic audio-visual material within classrooms to promote the development of oral expression in students. The results were analyzed with the T-student statistical test to check the validation of the hypothesis. A population of 52 students were considered and the present research was carried out demonstrating that authentic audiovisual material provides a better practice of oral expression, promoting the communicative process of students in the English language. The result was 3.75. Due to this very favorable result, this study concluded in the creation of a methodological guide that includes the application of authentic audiovisual material within the class to improve oral expression. The methodological guide, in addition, includes a rubric of evaluation of the activities and thus to verify the advance of the students. This is why, based on the results, the use of authentic audiovisual material is suggested to reinforce oral expression.Item Audiovisual materials for oral expression development(Universidad Técnica de Ambato. Dirección de Posgrado. Maestria en la Enseñanza del Idioma Inglés como Lengua Extranjera, 2019-02) Peña Ramírez, Luz Gricelda; Suárez Mosquera, Wilma ElizabethThis research mainly aims to analyze the effects of the use of audiovisual materials in the development of oral expression. To test the effectiveness of the use of these materials in oral expression, two main tests were applied based on the Speaking part of the Cambridge Preliminary English Test (PET). The pre-test and the post-test were applied to the population of this study that consisted of 55 ninth graders of basic education of the Unidad Educativa "Vicente Anda Aguirre" during the first term of the first semester in the 2018- 2019 academic year. The students and their teachers were surveyed to obtain information regarding the practice in the classroom. A handbook was designed with ten lesson plans which were used within the intervention period. The lessons are based on the use of audiovisual materials such as computer and internet, online tools, flip charts, television and cartoons in combination with oral expression strategies such as planning, execution, and evaluation. After finishing the treatment to the experimental group, the post-test was applied, with which the results were obtained that were later analyzed and contrasted with those obtained in the pre-test. For the data analysis, the T Student mathematical test was used; and, to verify the reliability of the results, the Cronbach Alpha test was applied. The results obtained with the experimental group prove the effectiveness of the use of audiovisual materials in the oral expression of ninth graders. They showed a lot of interest and motivation with audiovisual materials to improve their oral expression. The students also improved their oral skills. It is concluded that the use of audiovisual materials has positive effects on oral expression and it is recommended that teachers include in their class planning audiovisual materials use to improve the performance of their students.