App móvil mediante gamificación como estrategia de enseñanza para desarrollar habilidades lectoras en los estudiantes de 5to año de EGB

Abstract

Teaching language and literature today presents a great challenge for teachers who have not yet adapted to the use of technological tools and adopted new learning strategies, this factor has affected especially the students at the time of understanding the reading is why it is important to know and adapt these new strategies to promote learning aimed at students. Through the use of electronic devices such as cell phones, tablets, etc., it is possible to make use of mobile apps that allow a targeted and assertive communication with students; therefore, it is considered important to use gamification applications to improve reading skills such as reading and writing, vocabulary, and creativity development. Due to the aforementioned, the central problem is How to strengthen reading skills by incorporating an app based on gamification in the subject of Language and Literature, of the students of 5th grade of General Basic Education? The objective is to strengthen the reading skills of students in 5th grade of General Basic Education, through the development of a mobile app as a teaching strategy based on gamification. Therefore, the research process refers to technology, which is bringing about increasingly significant changes in teaching/learning methods. In these changes, mobile teaching applications are increasingly used as a means to train a wide range of users, the research focuses on describing appropriate methods for the development of reading skills of fifth grade students. Allowing in turn, to observe that these teaching methods and technologies will be used in the detailed analysis process, which indicates that the contribution is focused on the mobile application as an effective proposal to solve the problems posed by this research topic. For the research process, it was considered necessary to use a quantitative and qualitative methodology that allowed an analysis of the results obtained in relation to how the use of the mobile app Juega y Aprende con Erremon improves reading skills in students in the 5th year of general basic education. To obtain the data, a survey was conducted with teachers and students during two interactions, which resulted in 100% of the teachers using mobile applications and the mobile application Juega y Aprende con Erremon obtained 66% of acceptability in relation to improving reading skills, while in the second interaction with the students, the following data were obtained: 92.3% of them found the application interesting, and 84.6% wanted to use the mobile application in the classroom. In conclusion, the use of the mobile application Juega y Aprende con Erremon obtained a high degree of acceptability from the educational community in which it is evident that students are motivated to learn through gamification and teachers consider that the use of these applications leads to improve students' reading skills.