Etiqueta: Education

• DEVELOPING READING SKILLS THROUGH PEDAGOGICAL USE OF FACEBOOK IN EFL HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN ECUADOR

  This study was done with the aim of discovering if using Facebook (FB) in EFL classrooms help to develop reading skills. The participants were 180 high school students. This action research was approached through mixed method. Data was gathered by means of students’ weekly activities and a survey administered to teachers and students. The study concludes that the pedagogical use of FB favors the for improvement of reading skills, besides there is a total agreement of participants on the idea that FB has enhanced the aforementioned skill.

• DIGITAL MANUFACTURING AS A STRATEGY FOR CHANGING THE VOCATION OF STUDENTS

  The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of using digital comics by means of ToonDoo for enhancing English as a Foreign Language (EFL) vocabulary learning. A quasi-experimental approach was applied, and the participants included 189 private high school students, who were divided into control (105) and experimental (84) group. The data for this research was gathered through pre and post-tests, a post-questionnaire, and an observation sheet. This data was analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively and demonstrated that students had a positive perception on the use of ToonDoo for learning EFL vocabulary, resulting in an improvement of their academic performance.