System of audiovisual teaching resources for the improvement of regular and irregular verbs pronunciation in the past tense

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to improve the pronunciation of regular and irregular verbs in the past tense of the English language in students of the Pedagogy of National and Foreign Languages career through the use of ICTs as a didactic resource. Since they provide a wide range of computer materials, which are useful in the new digital educational context. Despite being university students, difficulties persist in terms of pronunciation. The research responds to a qualitative paradigm with an action research design making use of theoretical methods that allowed to organize the different criteria on the subject, facilitating a broader view on the research work. While with the help of empirical methods such as participant observation and diagnostic test which will allow to diagnose the initial state of the study population made up of first semester students of National and Foreign languages Pedagogy (PINE) career of Machala Technical University located in Machala city. Thus, identifying the needs of the students, we resorted to the use of new methodology to correct pronunciation errors within the group of students through the use of tics. The first step is to use virtual classrooms and then working with a set of activities designed to listen to the students and then give way to the practice of the articulation of each verb and thus begin to rectify errors carried over from secondary education.