Voa app and the listening comprehension

Abstract

The current study is aimed to analyze how the Voa app supports listening comprehension of third-year high school students from Unidad Educativa Juan Leon Mera “La Salle”. First, the design of this study was quasi-experimental, in which 50 students from two courses were included. The experimental group had a population of 20 students and the control group had 30 students, a standardized Cambridge A2 flayers test was applied to both groups in order to know the level of listening comprehension that the students had. Afterward, the intervention was carried out to the experimental group to which 6 activities designed with the Voa app were applied such as: discussions, completion activities, open- ended questions, work groups, games and sentence structures of the foreign language. The duration of this study was 3 weeks, 2 classes each week through the team’s platform. At the end of the treatment, the post-test was applied to both groups to compare the results, the progress obtained with the experimental group was 2.37/4, it showed that the Voa app significantly supported the listening comprehension of the students. Finally, the results of listening comprehension were analyzed using a T test, in which the effectiveness of the hypothesis was verified.