Research have shown that gamification can have a great and positive impact in students’ motivation and engagement with their learning. Since Covid-19 and social distance happened, teachers needed to adapt and create the conditions for students to continue with their learning, to boost their interest and motivation in a virtual environment. As a result, the use of online games seemed to be a way to grab students’ attention and to increase their level of participation in class while learning new vocabulary. Some authors have commented that at least 10 to 17 encounters might be necessary for word meaning to be recalled. Games used as a tool in vocabulary learning in a second language allow repetition through failure taking away the shyness or shame to try it again. The aim of this survey was to know the perception on the effectiveness of using online games when learning vocabulary at the English area of the Technical University of Babahoyo. The results showed that most teachers are willing to use online games. Even though some of them found it difficult to use games based on their content, they realized that gamification helped most of the students to engage in class. Students were more open to receiving information when experimenting with progress and persisted in their learning when they receive feedback repeatedly. Nevertheless, vocabulary acquisition also involves other aspects besides the meaning which opens new doors for this study to expand and explore in further research.
Este estudio de investigación examina el impacto de la enseñanza de idiomas basada en tareas (TBLT, por sus siglas en inglés) en la competencia oral y la motivación de los estudiantes de inglés como lengua extranjera (EFL, por sus siglas en inglés). El estudio se centra en una muestra de 60 estudiantes universitarios de entre 17 y 21 años, con un nivel de inglés A2. Se implementó un enfoque basado en tareas utilizando la aplicación Flip y reuniones por Zoom, incorporando diversos temas de conversación. La recopilación de datos involucró una encuesta con variables de escala de Likert para evaluar la motivación de los estudiantes y su percepción de las tareas. Los resultados indican niveles altos de motivación entre los estudiantes para mejorar sus habilidades de expresión oral en inglés, participar en ejercicios grupales y hablar inglés en el aula. Sin embargo, los estudiantes informaron una motivación relativamente menor para utilizar el inglés fuera del aula. Además, los hallazgos resaltan las percepciones positivas de los estudiantes hacia las tareas y actividades de lenguaje, enfatizando su efectividad para promover la motivación, la confianza, la mejora del vocabulario y las habilidades de comunicación. Estos resultados se alinean con los principios de la enseñanza de idiomas basada en tareas y la importancia de crear un entorno de aprendizaje interactivo y de apoyo. El estudio contribuye a la literatura existente sobre TBLT y proporciona información para educadores y diseñadores de currículo para mejorar la competencia oral y la motivación de los estudiantes de inglés como lengua extranjera.
This article aims to explore the producers’ vision about gender in Los Rios rural communities and the access of women to equal resources, services, and products in the agriculture area. A survey was carried out using a simple probabilistic sample of 130 producers among men and women inside different agriculture associations. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. The study confirms that women and men do not work on similar conditions regarding access to resources, training and extension services, access and property of land and inputs, although there is not a gap between women and men on a socioeconomic level. We highly recommend promoting public policies that could benefit women and promote a gender-neutral policy where decision-makers need to move to address the structural causes of inequalities, starting at the intra-household and community level.
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