Splatform and the listening skill

Abstract

The purpose of the current research is to evaluate the influence that Spotify platform has in the listening skill. The design of this investigation was quasi-experimental with one experimental group to which a CAE pre- test and post-test was applied. The population was a group of 31 students of the seventh semester from Pedagogy of National and Foreign Languages Major at Universidad Técnica de Ambato. It should be mentioned that the development of the experiment based on the evaluation of the listening skill lasted 6 hours. These six hours were divided in 3 weeks in which certain activities were applied by using the Spotify Platform; some educational podcasts were used to improve the listening skill since they provide conversations of native English speakers in the British accent. In addition, students were taught using standardized lesson plans which were focused on listening subskills such as detail information, specific information and listening for gist. Each lesson was designed to teach each part of CAE listening section. To gather the results, the researcher applied a pre- and post- test taken from the Preliminary English test by Cambridge which asses the listening skill (CAE). The purpose was to determine the level of students before and after using the Spotify Platform. Furthermore, the results of each part of CAE listening section were in increase of 18.9 to 25.5 these showed that the use of Spotify Platform contribute to the improvement of the listening skill. The initial and final average data were analyzed and to do so the Nonparametric of two related samplestest of Wilcoxon was applied.