Avaenglish como recurso educativo para la asignatura de inglés en los estudiantes de séptimo año EGB Sosena Barrezueta de Zamora

Abstract

The present research work was carried out in the educational institution Sosena Barrezueta de Zamora located in the city of Machala belonging to the province of El Oro, parish of La Providencia, with the participation of the English teacher Luis Cruz and with the support of the students of the seventh year of EGB parallel "A". Given the COVID-19 situation, the educational centres were forced to close their doors, moving from face-to-face education to online classes. For this, it is intended that teachers learn new skills, applying innovative strategies and techniques that can be used effectively in their classes, making use of different platforms and technological tools for good communication between peers. However, it is important that students are involved in all areas, and in turn develop their skills and prepare for an integrated society dominated by ICT as a lifelong learning tool. This new society needs trained and motivated teachers to cope with the different changes that schools are continuously experiencing in the new social realities. The teacher must include and use technology to support the ASP. The main objective of the research is to design and promote a virtual learning environment 2D, which allows to enhance autonomous learning in primary school students in order to help them improve their English skills through a gamified game. To this end, quantitative and qualitative approaches were used, applying research methods such as Pretest and Posttest (interviews and surveys) to a defined population of 33 students in the seventh year of EGB and the teacher of the subject English. On the other hand, the Scrum methodology was used for the development of the prototype, because it presents characteristics that help to develop in an agile way the construction of tools of all kinds, allowing to satisfactorily fulfil the necessary expectations for the adequate applicability of the resource. According to the analysis and based on the design requirements, it was found that the implemented proposal obtained effective results for both the development and application of the prototype. It is worth mentioning that the students prefer to carry out activities with the help of productive tools that will allow them to interact and play at the same time, thus achieving the proposed objectives of the research. In short, the research presented favourable results that demonstrate the effectiveness and appreciation of the educational resource by the teacher of the English subject and the students of the seventh year of EGB, in addition, recommendations were identified that helped to improve the AVAENGLISH educational resource. On the other hand, the virtual learning environment was developed using RPG Maker MZ trial version and the web design platform Photopea was used to adapt new graphics to it. Subsequently, use was made of the free hosting 000WebHost and it was called AVAENGLISH, taking as a reference the initials AVA for Virtual Learning Environment and ENGLISH for the subject taught. In this way, events, places and dialogues from the book Starship English pre A1.2 Ecuador version were included in the resource, so that they were recreated in a dynamic and interactive way, making the most of the potential of the tools that facilitated the creation of the prototype.