Ciencias Humanas y de la Educación
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Item Numbered Heads Together strategy and the development of English oral fluency(Carrera de Pedagogía de los Idiomas Nacionales y Extranjeros, 2022-03-01) Uquillas Lescano, Karla Pamela; Escalante Gamazo, Marbella CumandáThe current research work was aimed to analyze the impact of Numbered Heads Together in the development of English oral fluency in 24 students from fourth level “A” at Centro de Idiomas UTI. It followed a quantitative approach since the hypothesis was accepted through the application of a statistical method T-Student. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this research was developed through virtual classes because it was not possible to have face-to-face contact with students. Besides, this study collected information from physical and digital resources such as scientific journals, articles, thesis, books, and papers on the internet to support the variables. The research has a preexperimental design in which the instrument for collecting data was a pre and post-test. This study took 4 weeks in which the researcher intervened virtually 9 sessions by zoom virtual platform. The first and last sessions were mainly to apply the pre-test and posttest respectively to measure students speaking ability in terms of oral fluency. The results showed that students needed to improve their speaking skill since the total average of the pre-test was 2,42 over 5 points. Consequently, students were taught by applying Numbered Heads Together following the topics that the coursebook suggested. After finishing the 7 treatment sessions, students took a post-test in order to compare it with the pre-test. The total average for the post test was 3,23. It is important to highlight the progress of 0,81. The results showed that there is a significant difference between both samples. This study concluded that Numbered Heads Together can be used to improve students speaking skill and sub skill such as fluency.Item Cooperative language learning and reading skills(Universidad Técnica de Ambato-Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y de la Educación-Carrera de Idiomas, 2021-03-01) Castillo Altamirano, Danilo Israel; Suárez Mosquera, Wilma ElizabethThe learning process is a complex system in which teachers and students are an important part. It is important for teachers to apply the appropriate methods and strategies in the classroom to effectively develop skills on students. This research intended to determine the influence that Cooperative Language Learning approach has on learners´ reading skills. In order to conduct the experiment, a quasi-experimental research was used. The study lasted a period of 2 weeks, with 5 sessions in total. All the sessions were carried out the application zoom, using the option breakout rooms most of the time. The population of the study was 40 students, 30 women and 10 men from second semester of Pedagogía de los Idiomas Nacionales y Extranjeros at Universidad Técnica de Ambato. For data collection the instrumetns that the researcher used were a reading pre-test at the beginning of the study to identify students´ level in the reading skill and a post-test which was taken by students at the end of the treatment to determine the effect after they worked with cooperative language learning approach. After gathering the results of the treatment, it can be concluded Cooperative Language Learning did not have a great impact on student´s reading skills.