Quizlet and English language vocabulary

Abstract

Nowadays, technological resources are important in education. Hence, the aim of this current research work is to determine the influence of the Quizlet app on the English language vocabulary in students of the 1st BGU "B" at the rural institution Unidad Educativa Dario Guevara. The investigative process was carried out through a quasiexperimental design and bibliographic, field, exploratory and descriptive research modality, besides the population that participated in the research work was a single group of 21 students between the ages of 16 and 17. The experimental intervention lasted four weeks each week had two class sessions with a total of eight sessions, the first six sessions were worked within the educational institution, while the last two sessions through the Zoom platform, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In addition, at the beginning of the intervention, the students completed a pre-test to measure their vocabulary level, which showed low performance, exactly it was 3.38 out of 12 points. Then, the class sessions were developed by implementing vocabulary activities with topics related to the A2 Flyers level of the Cambridge Assessment, these activities were practiced in Quizlet app. Then, at the end of the intervention, the students took a post-test to determine their progress, which indicated an improvement of 6.85 out of 12 points. Then, the comparative results showed an advance of 3.47 points between both samples, which allowed validating the verification of the hypothesis. Therefore, this work had a positive effect on the learning of English language vocabulary