Drills and oral accuracy

Abstract

The purpose of this investigation is to determine the use of Drills to improve Oral accuracy in fifth-year students ‘academic achievement at Unidad Educativa “17 de Abril” from Quero. This research was applied using a pre-experimental design and a population of 22 students. This study had a duration of three weeks of intervention in presential classes. During the intervention, a pre-test and post-test taken from Cambridge Assessment English level A1 Movers was applied to measure the oral skills presented by the students. Once the data was collected, it was tabulated and represented in tables and graphics to be analyzed later. The researcher applied the A1 Movers standardized test from Cambridge. Therefore, the statistical data collected through the test was analyzed using the SPSS software and the Wilcoxon test result was applied to determine the hypothesis verifications with the scores of the students from the pre-test and post-test. The results obtained from the pre-test, posttest and Wilcoxon test result demonstrated that the use of Drills had a positive result on the Oral Accuracy because participants were able to achieve better scores in the post test. The average score was of 8.1364 out of 16 points in the post-test. In conclusion, the application of Drills improved the oral accuracy of the students because the repetition drills help students to increase their confidence and memorize words, and structures in order to talk with good accuracy.