El uso de Quizizz como herramienta de gamificación para incrementar la motivación de los estudiantes en el aprendizaje del inglés como lengua extranjera

Abstract

Abstract: This research focuses on the use of Quizizz as a gamification tool to increase the motivation of students in learning English as a language foreign. It has a quantitative approach and uses statistical analysis to establish the degree of relationship between variables and check the proposed hypotheses. He The general objective of the investigation was to determine if the implementation of the Quizizz tool increases motivation and influences the learning of the English language of students of the Upper Basic sublevel. For this, a sample of 28 was selected. students belonging to a public institution in the city of Loja, Ecuador. HE planned and implemented 5 workshops corresponding to 10 class periods in which this application was used. In addition, three research techniques were used: a survey, a test and a structured interview with their corresponding instruments, which were used for data collection. The results show that the use of Quizizz It does increase the motivation of students and therefore has a positive impact on their academic performance.