Carrera de Pedagogía de los Idiomas Nacionales y Extranjeros
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Item Pictured-cued Tasks and Speaking Skill(Carrera de Pedagogía de los Idiomas Nacionales y Extranjeros, 2021-09-01) Aucapiña Moreta, Mayra Alexandra; Chicaiza Redín, Verónica ElizabethSpeaking is one of the most difficult skills to be developed by language learners. Most of the students have problems to speak fluently, accurately, and using good pronunciation. Teachers should provide practical and useful activities such as Picture-cued tasks to develop and enhance students speaking skill. The purpose of the current research is to analyze the influence of picture-cued task in speaking skill. The design of this study was quasi-experimental research with a single group of 25 participants who were students from the fouth semester “A” of “Pedagogía de los Idiomas Nacionales y Extranjeros” major at Universidad Tecnica de Ambato. The experimental part of the research lasted for 4 weeks in six online sessions and the pedagogical interventions involved the use of picture-cued tasks as main activities in speaking practice. To gather the results the researcher applied a pre- and post- test taken from the Preliminary English test by Cambridge which asses the speaking skill (PET) at B1 level. The purpose was to determine the level of students’ speaking skill before and after using pictures-cued tasks. Analysis of the data was then performed using the T-student statistical test. The findings confirmed that there is a significant influence of picture-cued tasks in speaking skill. Besides, the results showed that these tasks contribute to the improvement of the speaking sub-skills especially grammar and vocabulary.