Interactive story games and reading comprehension

Abstract

Interactive story games are a way of digital interaction that allows players to become involved in the story and engage with the characters. This allows them to change the story to their liking and end up with different endings. This form of the game requires constant reading to choose various options that users have in each interaction. For this reason, this type of games is taken into account in this research work to improve reading comprehension of the English language. The objective of this research was to analyze the effects of interactive history games on the reading comprehension of firstyear high school students from the Unidad Educativa Guayaquil. This was achieved through the quasi-experimental qualitative method with an experimental group of 27 students, including 4 women and 23 men. A pre-test was applied at the beginning to measure the level of reading comprehension of the students, then 8 treatments were applied during the English hours in which the interactive story game 7 Days was used to improve reading comprehension, at the end, a post-test was taken to measure the level of current reading comprehension of the students. The total score in the pre-test was 3.1 out of 10 points, while the post-test was 5.4 out of 10 points, which means that there was an increase of 2.3 points. Through the different parts of the test it was found that students are able to identify the main and secondary ideas of the texts. Therefore, it was concluded that the use of interactive games contributes positively to the improvement of reading comprehension