Students most accepted virtual apps for the development of english as a foreign language at The Foreign Language Department of the University of el Salvador, year 2020.
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2022-12-13
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The present research focused on information about students most accepted virtual apps for the development of English as a foreign language at the foreign language department of the university of El Salvador, specifically, students from English Teaching Major. Education has undergone a great change in the last century, so teachers, students, and others who participate in the teaching and learning processes have been forced to reinvent new strategies with the full use of technological tools. The main goal in this research is to provide information to know and analyze the apps that students use to learn English. Since there is a variety of apps that can be applied in the educational process, some of them are feasible for the students and teachers, and some others are not. According to the information needed for the research, the research approach for knowing the most accepted virtual apps for the students was the phenomenological approach because of the fact that technology in education has become a phenomenon, even more, with the current situation caused by the Covid19 pandemic in the country. The research describes the students and teachers´ experiences about the use of technology in the teaching and learning process, but to make that description, the researcher considered and analyzed numerical data. For that reason, the type of study was a combination of quantitative and qualitative study but making more emphasis in the qualitative study. For this research, the researcher used the non-experimental cross-sectional research design since the study does not present numerical data as the main goal, but it was used to describe the results at the end of the research. Some conclusions have been stated as well as recommendations; the results showed that most of the students accept Google classroom and Google Meet to have online classes and Whatsapp to have a better interaction among students and teachers. Having those results, teachers and students should look for more apps, which can be applied together with the apps selected, to improve the results in the English teaching and learning process in the virtual modality.
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Technological tools, virtual education, apps, educational process