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Online Stories from the Moth to Improve the Speaking Skill: Ambato Case
24th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning, ICL 2021 ; 389 LNNS:303-310, 2022.
Article in English | Scopus | ID: covidwho-1706543
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This research project tries to investigate the influence of the Moth stories in the development of the speaking English skill. This is an experimental representation of the learning in form of storytelling method. This study had the participation of 39 students from the second semester “A” of Pedagogía de los Idiomas Nacionales y Extranjeros program at Technical University of Ambato. The whole experimental group (EG) was allowed to use online resources such as stories taken from The Moth web page to practice and complete some speaking tasks. To assess the speaking skill, a mock-up Key English Test (KET) speaking part was used as a pre and post-test. The speaking criteria were stated in the rubric provided by Cambridge which consisted of Grammar and Vocabulary, Pronunciation and Interactive Communication. The experiment was designed with the use of with the use of online stories according to student’s age and needs and obviously taking into consideration the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to analyze the experimental data that were represented in the paper, the SPSS program was used to apply a T-Student test. To conclude, the results showed that online stories taken from The Moth web page had positive effects on the development of the students’ speaking skill. Its interface, resource, structure, and methodology were engaging for students so they improved mainly the pronunciation and its branches which are the intelligibility, word-stress, intonation and phonological features. Thus, the positive effects of using online storytelling strategies were obvious in this research. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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Full text: Available Collection: Databases of international organizations Database: Scopus Language: English Journal: 24th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning, ICL 2021 Year: 2022 Document Type: Article