Animated Movies and Listening Skill

Abstract

The objective of this research was to determine the relationship between animated films and listening skills among students of fourth semester of Carrera de Pedagogía de los Idiomas Nacionales y Extranjeros at Universidad Técnica de Ambato, which took the subject "Communicative Languages Teaching Strategies". Furthermore, this research followed a quantitative approach and pre-experimental design was applied to a group of 42 students, in order to know the impact of the application of animated films. The treatment consisted in the application of some animated movies during some of their classes, with the purpose of helping the students to better develop this listening skill through the exposure to authentic material, where they could perceive the language more real. Eventually, the application of didactic and technological material was used in order to display the movies in synchronous and asynchronous hours. To conclude, the application of animated movies becomes a necessary factor for the improvement of listening skills, due to some factors in which the learner is involved, such as more real language, vocabulary, real expressions. Moreover, after the results obtained from the pre-test and post-test, analysis of results, tabulations and graph of results, in addition to the Wilcoxon test statistical method, the effectiveness of animated movies for listening skills was proven