The learning of strategies for developing English listening skills by using Edmodo® in secondary school students

Abstract

The domain and development of the English language has been important throughout years and Chile has not fallen behind since the State has created and implemented tests, such as SIMCE, for measuring the language acquisition. Unfortunately, the results of the previously mentioned tests have shown that curricular bases, designed to achieve the development of the foreign language, have not fulfilled its task. For this reason, the group in charge of the current investigation decided to inquire into a particular aspect such as the development of the listening skill. Bearing in mind the latter and taken into consideration the growing application of technology in the classroom is that the current research looks for giving answer to the question, What effects could the teaching of strategies have on a virtual learning environment?. By a process of action-research the previously formulated question was intended to be answered. For the context and the group in which the investigation was carried out, the application of technology, specifically a virtual learning environment called Edmodo®, for the development of the listening skill was not significant. Finally, and how it is explained later in the investigation, the non-significance of the investigative process does not represent the inefficiency of technology in the development and help in the educative task as a whole.