The present study was developed in a private school in Samborondon, Ecuador. It aimed at improving writing skills by using reflective journals. Twenty students from 7 to 8 years old and of 4th grade participated in the study. The level of this group of students was Pre-A1 according to the Common European Framework of Reference, with respect to technology all students were beginners. This research was implemented using action research with the combination of quantitative and qualitative instru...

This action research aimed to improve students' English-speaking fluency in a school in Los Ríos Province using an adaptation of the 4/3/2 technique and self-assessment of recording videos. A sample of 24 ninth-graders, ranging from 11 to 13 years old, were separated aleatory into a control and an experimental group. Among the participants in the experimental group, 66.7% were female, and 33% were male. In the control group, 50% were female, and 50% were male. The data were obtained throug...

This innovation was implemented to improve students' reading comprehension. Confusion was observed when summarizing and getting main ideas. The 12 participants belonged to the Reading and Writing class from a private English language school in Guayaquil with a B1 level of English. In the group, there were 3 women and 9 men, and their occupations were university students and professionals. To help students of the Reading and Writing course to improve these aspects, summaries of narratives text...

The purpose of this study was to implement skimming and scanning facilitated by Schoology to improve reading comprehension. Participants were 26 EFL students at a public institute in Guayaquil. Their English level was A1 even though they were expected to be A2. This action research study used quantitative data from pre and post surveys, quizzes, pretest and posttests. The data showed that 59% of students improved their skimming and scanning subskills. After applying the innovation, 41% of st...

This study implemented a collaborative assessment by applying a scanning strategy to improve reading comprehension skills. This action research was carried out at a public university in Guayaquil. It was conducted for six weeks, and there were 20 participants. This paper is a mixed design study that combined quantitative and qualitative instruments: a pre and post-test, a checklist, a pre and post-survey, and learning logs. At the end of the innovation, there was an enhancement in the post-t...

The main purpose of this study was to demonstrate the effectiveness of the application of graphic organizers to improve reading comprehension in students of English as a second language. The study covered a population of 25 university students of Language and Literature career who had deficiencies to understand details in narrative texts. Quantitative instruments were applied to sustenance the investigation. The instruments involved are pre-test and post-test, rubric, survey, and a checklist...

This study intended to find out whether skimming and scanning strategies (SST) can improve EFL students' English comprehension skills on identifying, general or primary ideas, as well as specific information from a paragraph or a text when reading in a foreign language. It was carried out in a public university in Guayaquil, and the sample was 24 higher education students from the second semester with pre-A1, A1, and A2 levels. This action research was conducted with qualitative and quantita...

This research has as main objective establish a diagnosis of the structural and procedural aspects of the quality in the Unidad Educativa Javier in the preschool level, Guayaquil-Ecuador, school period 2018-2019. It was a quantitative, non-experimental and field research with a sample of fifteen teachers, sixty-five families and the three education managers. Data was taking by applying the Family perceptions and expectations survey, the PICCOLO and ECERS observation scale and the Self Asses...

Parental styles have long been a breeding ground for different investigations in the field of educational sciences. The correlation that exists between the parenting style of the parent with different factors of the child's personal development make the importance of the subject indisputable. In this sense, one of the most studied interactions in this area has been the relationship of parenting styles with the development of social skills in school-age children, being this topic the one addre...

This business project shows us the innovative enterprising our country, through market and technical analysis and with different sources of research, in order to identify the niche of greatest interest, where you can have a clear idea of what it takes to conduct a business of this type and allows to motivating more Ecuadorians to export healthy products made in the country, of high nutritional value to the world. Keywords: ENTERPRISING, INNOVATION, HEALTHY, BUSINESS PLAN, INTERNATIONALIZA...

In October 2019, Ecuador was going through one of the biggest social crises when decree 883 was announced, where the majority of Ecuadorians were economically affected, as a consequence, protests took place throughout the country. The purpose of this study is to describe the government communication strategy used by three official spokesmen of the Lenín Moreno government to handle the crisis (President Lenín Moreno, Vice President Otto Sonnenholzner, and Secretary General Juan Sebastián Roldá...