Short cartoon clips and listening skill

Abstract

The current research had as purpose to determine the influence of short cartoon clips in the listening skill on students of first semester from the Pedagogía de los Idiomas Nacionales y Extranjeros program at Technical University of Ambato. The methods used were: The ADDIE method (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation and Evaluation), which consists of providing online educational training, a survey about web 3.0 was also applied; then the application of the ''Pre-test'' to the experimental and control group that was obtained from the ''Cambridge Assessment'' called Key English A2, which was focused only on listening skill, 5 interventions were carried out, giving as a final result the ''Post-test'’. The survey related to the variables of the thesis topic was applied to all students as only the experimental group was applied the TAM model (Technology Acceptance Model) as an evaluation in order to check the level of acceptance of new technologies. The treatment consisted of presenting short cartoon clips at the beginning of each class as an introduction to the new topic to be learned, in this way the students are exposed to authentic material by using technological tools obtained from the web 3.0 to create activities related to teach English language. The results showed that there was an improvement of 0,7 points in the test in general (19.6 - 20.3). Considering all the instruments used for this research, it can be concluded that these discoveries will help future researches considering other perspectives that help find new ways to teach the English language.