Browsing by Author "Muriel Bonilla, Alfredo Bolivar"

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    Developing Online Materials into Blogs to Improve Reading Skills at 3rd. Baccalaureate Students
    (Universidad Bolivariana del Ecuador, 2024-09-09) Muriel Bonilla, Alfredo Bolivar; Mariscal Touzard, Laura Iliana
    This mixed-method approach research aims to determine the influence of developing materials into blogs on reading skills of 3rd. Baccalaureate students at "Unidad Educativa Pedro Vicente Maldonado" in Riobamba, Chimborazo Province. The research was conducted in three phases: a diagnostic phase to assess students' current English proficiency levels and their perceptions of the reading materials they have been assigned; an analytical phase to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the current reading materials and to develop a set of criteria for effective reading-based methodologies; and a proposal phase to develop and pilot a set of reading-based methodologies that meet the criteria identified in the analytical phase. The proposed methodology involves creating blogs tailored to the interests and needs of students, containing genuine motivating reading materials created by the researcher with interactive activities to develop their reading comprehension skills. The study addresses the gap between traditional teaching and the way teachers give context and genuine reading materials, and to propose a new methodology for developing reading skills in EFL students. After applying ad pretest and post-test to assess reading skills, it was seen that the intervention group showed a mean score increase of 16.35%, which is a significant value to demonstrate that the use of blog in EFL instructions is effective in terms of improve the reading skill. After getting insights through questionaries and interviews, these students show a positive attitude and motivation towards this intervention. They think that Blogs offer valuable, practical information that can be applied to reallife situations, allowing readers to explore related topics and make connections between different texts.