software educativo gamificado como recurso didáctico para promover la motivación de los estudiantes en la asignatura inglés.

Abstract

This research is directed towards the development of a gamified educational software as a didactic resource to promote motivation in the subject of English, this work is focused on the students of fifth year parallel "A" of the Virgen de Fatima Private Educational Unit of the city of Machala, El Oro Province. Also, the English teacher and an expert in the area of computer science participated in the project. It is necessary to mention that nowadays it is essential to incorporate innovative resources in the educational process of students, which help to promote the development of competencies and technological skills currently required in a society dominated by ICT. That is why the following research question is posed: How does the implementation of a gamified educational software as a didactic resource to promote motivation in the students of fifth year of General Basic Education in the subject of English belonging to the Private Educational Unit "Virgen de Fátima" of the city of Machala? in order to promote this important aspect in the learning process of students. In relation to the above, objectives have been set with which it is intended to achieve positive results, as the main objective is to develop a gamified educational software that promotes motivation in students of fifth year General Basic Education in the subject of English, identifying the use of teaching strategies by the teacher, developing and applying the software within the classroom environment and evaluating the impact it generated in the participants. It was decided to develop this research with a descriptive scope and using approaches such as qualitative and quantitative, under the pretest and posttest design, allowed contrasting the results obtained, for data collection it was necessary the application of instruments and techniques for data collection, associated with an interview directed to the teacher and the expert in the area, also complemented with a survey applied to students, obtaining positive results in the implementation of the same. For the development of the prototype was applied the agile development methodology Extreme Programming (XP), which has five phases such as planning, design, coding, testing and launching, necessary for the creation of a quality software focused on user satisfaction, as well as the programming language used is object-oriented developed in the tool Visual studio.net 2022, since it allows the incorporation of various elements such as text, images, audio, among others. In the implementation two experiences were carried out in which the gamified educational software was presented to the teacher and expert in order to demonstrate its operation and determine the suggestions provided by the participants, the appropriate adjustments were made to apply as a second experience to students of the subject of English, achieving favorable results with the use of educational software MayEnglish, obtaining as a conclusion that the development of this allows to promote motivation in the subject of English, generating positive results in the learning process of students.