Aprendizaje significativo del inglés mediante el uso de herramientas lúdicas en el marco de TIC

Abstract

The present work emerges from the need evidenced in the data obtained from the course closure formats carried out by the SENA Financial Services Center, which showed a dropout rate of more than 40% and dissatisfaction with the contents and activities of 30%, which invites us to make changes in the content and pedagogical methodologies of the virtual English course "English Dot Works" offered by SENA, as they are unattractive for learners, leading to lack of motivation and dropout from the course. For this, through the Research-Action methodology, a pedagogical proposal based on the use of ICT, the use of playful pedagogy and meaningful learning called GAME was proposed, which was applied to a group of 80 learners and contrasted with another group with the same number of participants to evaluate the changes, finding significant differences in favor of the pedagogical proposal implemented that showed a positive impact on the motivation and permanence of the learners, but also in the way in which the contents were understood, concluding that By integrating a playful approach to English training, a decrease in desertion is achieved and, in addition, it is achieved that the contents are learned more quickly and can then be used in the daily environments (family, educational and work) of our learners.