The starfall app and the reading skill
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2021-07-01
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Universidad Técnica de Ambato-Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y de la Educación-Carrera de Idiomas
Abstract
The main objective of this research is to help third year students of basic education of
the "Continental School" by using the application "Starfall" which will serve as a
participatory pedagogical resource in the process of improving the ability of reading
in the children studied, for this it was necessary to focus on a quantitative
methodology due to the surveys, pretest and posttest applied in relation to the tests
carried out before using the application with the data after having used it, obtaining a
result favorable to the application demonstrating that there is a notable improvement
with the use of the application "Starfall" which helps, strengthens and improves the
ability to read, and understand the English language in 11 children which are in an
age range of 7 and 8 years to which the study was subjected, mentioning that the
improvement obtained was due to the fact that it was carried out in a didactic way
and with different activities. It is to the liking of students and with support in
technology for its development, it is worth mentioning that the application serves as
support due to the current reality that is experienced by the COVID-19, making it
easier for students to actively participate from home.
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STARFALL, PEDAGOGICAL, LANGUAGE, VOCABULARY, APPLICATION