ABSTRACT
This research aims to explain how the use of technological tools influences the development of English language skills in students of basic general education in a rural fiscal institution in Ecuador. The importance of developing skills such as: writing, reading, listening, and speaking, leads to deciding the support of technological tools in a context in which education was forced to be virtual due to the Covid-19 pandemic. For this, the research approach is mixed, qualitative under an interview with experts and quantitative by collecting data through a pilot plan with eighth grade students, starting from a diagnostic test and later after the use of English language skills. The results show a notable difference in the development of skills with scores between 7 and 8, followed by scores between 9 and 10, which denotes the positive effects on students of the correct use of Educational Technological Tools.