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    Text mapping technique in the reading of narrative texts
    (Universidad Técnica de Ambato. Dirección de Posgrado. Maestria en la Enseñanza del Idioma Inglés como Lengua Extranjera, 2019-01) Sandoval Pérez, María José; Mejía Sánchez, Enith Jessenia
    This research aims to establish the impact of using the technique the impact of using Text Mapping Technique to develop reading skills in narrative text on Third level students in the Language Center of the Universidad Técnica de Babahoyo Knowing that reading is considered one of the four fundamental language skills that students of English as a foreign language must master, a pre-test was applied in order to know students‟ reading skills. The results demonstrated that it is not an easy skill since most of learners have many reading issues. Text Mapping Technique was applied to enhance reading skills for learners. Thorough these visual technique students understood how information was organized in content area text. This technique was useful because it helped students to understand better the text, using the text itself as a means marking different features and retain the content. After this process, students took a post-test to see if the Text Mapping Technique made any difference regarding the reading skills performance. The findings indicated that the students got a higher average in the reading post-test in comparison with the average obtained in the pre-test. Based on this analysis, teachers were suggested to apply Text Mapping Technique in their reading lesson to enhance the reading skills. On the other hand, to obtain depth information about students‟ opinion after to use Text Mapping Technique, a survey was applied which helped to sustain the present research, as well as the theories and models that adjust to the development of the proposal to improve the education in this institution.
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    Positive and negative word order interferences from Kichwa into English writing
    (Universidad Técnica de Ambato. Dirección de Posgrado. Maestría en la Enseñanza del Idioma Inglés como Lengua Extranjera, 2018-07) Guachi Constante, Ana Lucia; Camacho Estrada, Sara Nidhya
    The purpose of this research project is to analyze the positive and negative word order interferences from Kichwa language to English writings in Kichwa students when learning English as a foreign language. In order to determine how the variables are interrelated, an exhuastive research was carried out through the reading of academic articles, books, and journals related to the study of positive and negative word order interferences from the mother language to the foreign language, as well as the writing skills. With the aim of gathering information, three tests were carried out during the English Language Teaching process to seventy Kichwa students with the objective of measuring positive and negative word order interferences from Kichwa language to English writings. Once compiled the obtained results were analyzed carefully and systematically tabulated with which the percentage of positive and negative interference was determined. Also two English teachers with enough experience in the institution were interviewed about the topic of study, who contributed with significant information about the phenomenon of positive and negative interference that exists from Kichwa to English, as well as to an expert writer of the Kichwa language. Based on the results obtained from the applied tests and the interviews, conclusions and recommendations were established. Within the conclusions, it was found that there is positive Kichwa word order interference while negative word order interference was not considerable. Consequently, within the recommendations once states the necessity of the creation of a handbook with activities to prevent negative Kichwa word order interference as well to take advantage of positive interference. Therefore, the proposal of this present research work contains activities designed exclusively for Kichwa speakers to structure sentences correctly in the English language.