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The use of applications and their demand increased with the pandemic, at the Latin American level, some of them, such as DUOLINGO, have been empowered but there are others with a potential that helps oral communication. “English phonetic pronunciation, listening practice” has more than 40 lessons teaching for you about how to pronounce every International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbols, after completing the course, you can pronounce every words in English precisely.

Pronunciation is the most challenging skills of students. Many students spent years trying to be understood when speaking English without much success. The knowledge of how to pronounce English words correctly is the key. By learning the IPA, you can know how to look up words for pronunciations. “English Phonetic pronunciation, practice Listening practice” have a list of common English words and their pronunciation rules.

The students from Computer Science have two English courses. First quarter, it is an introduction English course, with English as a Foreign Language (EFL) content. Second quarter, it is a technical English that we consider as English for Specific Purposes (ESP) content. In both, oral communication is needed.

English teachers tend to be more inclined to written communication, which generates a deficiency in the oral communication of students in this career. This is the reason why many students feel frustrated and not motivated to pursue the study of this much-needed language in their studies.

“As the access to technology, software, and application has been granted, accordingly, more and more educators and researchers have paid attention to technology integration and use” (Fernandes et al. 2020; Russell et al. 2003).

The increased use of applications tends to be more attractive to students in general, but these Computer Science students who have constant contact with technology increases the possibility of their interest. This panorama makes our study of integrating the English Phonetic Pronunciation, Listening Practice application as a complement to the classes they take throughout their career more interesting. The biggest challenge for them is oral communication and that is why our project is aimed at working with a self-taught digital tool that will make the student feel ready to express himself orally without fear of making pronunciation errors, which is the greatest fear.

This application will be suggested by the teacher without any summative evaluation, only use as a complement, it helps the student feel more confident when speaking or reading aloud in front of the class when required.

The fears of speaking in front of the classroom will be reduced and the student will be able to understand the different sounds that are in the English language facilitating their understanding in the English language.

Knowing the phonemes helps to deepen the knowledge of pronunciation which in effect will help them to recognize sounds just by seeing the symbols in a dictionary or translator. We know that articulation and listening is important that is why within the app lessons, practical and repetition lessons are provided that help to acquire those sounds that were previously unknown, making easier the production of the language within oral communication.

Many of the reasons that students or native speakers do not understand the language is due to the lack of knowledge of the correct pronunciation of a word

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Students from Computing Science at ISAE university will be part of this study knowing their English level is low and intermediate. This is the third quarter of 20 students coursing in the evening schedule. Our study will collect information for this shift taking in consideration 2 hours of the English classes.

Projecting our study bringing a pronunciation app as a complement in the English classes that could help students and teachers during some oral activities make the class environment more comfortable to speak.

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The research is convenient because it will help us to know the benefits that the integration of this application can generate within the English classes in Computer Science. Recognizing the deficiencies in oral communication and how this app can improve it by taking the student to a more active participation in English classes, can be an answer to our problem.

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It is common to listen to L2 learners having problems in the pronunciation of the 3rd person singular inflection in English. We mean, that this is a problem that has been previously analyzed through different perspectives and theoretical frameworks in order to find an appropriate explanation to understand why is one of the most difficult grammatical rules to be acquired by English L2 learners.

It is well known that the 3rd person singular inflection in English is considered an introductory concept for second/foreign language learners as it is one of the first grammatical rules taught by teachers to L2 learners of English at college level. In addition, according to Krashen (1982), English verbal agreement is commonly described as “easy” and the 3rd person singular – s is one of the most understandable concepts to learn of English grammar. Although both researchers and ESL teachers seem to agree in the fact that the third person singular rule is very simple, there is some variability in its use by learners, and it seems that there are not so many students that apply the rule, even when referring to L2 learners with an advanced level of English (Hironymous, 1993).

Likewise, it is good to say that the good pronunciation of the English language for a L2 speaker, in this case 3rd person singular inflection, is something that determine the competence of the speaker in the correct use of the language.

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Teaching pronunciation to learners of English as a foreign language is difficult for teachers of English, who are not native speakers, have to face in a classroom since it implies many aspects of the language such as word stress, intonation, rhythm, accent, among others. Besides, when teaching pronunciation, teachers need to consider other factors that affect pronunciation learning. For instance, the age of the learner, motivation, personality and aptitude, exposure to the target language, the influence of the learner's mother language, and methods and quality of teaching must consider promoting a better understanding. (Yoshida, 2014)

On the other hand, teachers' technical knowledge of phonetics is crucial in teaching pronunciation. Knowing how to produce sounds to be understood (intelligibility and comprehensibility) is a task that English teachers should manage to provide their learners with meaningful learning activities in the language classroom. Even when non-native speakers teachers of the English language could lack mastering some phonetics aspects of the target language, there are some basic concepts that they need to teach to their learners to push them to use the target language accurately.

According to (Atli, 2012) "regardless of the changing trends in or attitudes towards pronunciation teaching, it has always been acknowledged that pronunciation is a fundamental part of one's oral ability in the target language." So teaching pronunciation in the language classroom is not optional. Many authors recommend exposing students to listening and speaking activities to develop their oral communication skills. (Celce-Murcia, 2010) indicates that "teachers of English as a foreign language, who are not native speakers, are expected to serve as the major model and source of input in English for their students."

According to (Griffiths, 2011), teachers have neglected the teaching of pronunciation. They concur that when pronunciation is studied or focused on in the classrooms, it tends to deal with specific pronunciation problems that happen in the precise moment of student performance. For this reason, it is of vital importance for teachers to have well-developed plans to address pronunciation problems in the best possible way.

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The following research is directed to tenth graders from Escuela Normal Juan Demostrenes Arosemenena, of Santiago Distric in Veraguas Province, Panama. That population will be required to use the æ Pronunciation App for a period of five weeks to improve their pronunciation of plural nouns endings. Learners will be chosen by convenience sampling from three groups of learners of thirty students each, since some of them do not have access to internet connection all the time.

Besides, learners will be asked to download the App in their cellphones or computers, and they will be guided by the researchers how to use it, first. Then, they will distinguish the pronunciation of plural nouns endings for a period of four weeks by using the tool.

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The main reasons we single out this topic focus on that learning English as a foreign language rests on pronunciation, so speaking is a vital factor in learning and using a language accurately.  Also, teaching pronunciation is crucial for oral skills and the amount of time and effort dedicated to it relies on the language teacher.

So, for helping students to achieve clear pronunciation, teachers need to plan activities that go beyond repeat after me, so learners should notice how to pronounce the sounds and understand them when they hear them.

Finally, using technologies provides teachers and learners an approximation of English sounds and features that they need to master when using the idiom. So, we are aware that to come up with a virtual online teaching and learning tool will be beneficial not only for students but also for English teachers facing the same pronunciation difficulties.

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Language is the main method of communication in which people express their feelings, ideas, opinions, and desires.

English is the most spoken language around the world, and many people worldwide use it as their first or even their second language, and it tends to have an important role in all fields.

Grammar refers to the rules of structure. Concerning the structure, it is the basic knowledge and skills for understanding the language naturally constructed and used.

The teaching of grammar has always been a central aspect of foreign language teaching because grammatical competence is necessary for communication to take place. Preparing the students for grammar is very important.

A student must know for certain what he writes and speaks correct English or to know whether or not the sentence pattern is correct, he must know the rules of English or its grammar because English grammar is the key to proficiency.

Grammar lays the groundwork for effective communication. When people speak with proper grammar, not only will others be interested in and able to understand what you have to say, but they also will be much more likely to see you as intelligent, logical, and educated.

Unlike written English, spoken English is usually spontaneous and unplanned and produced in real-time with no opportunity for editing (Cullen and Kuo 2007). This spontaneity produces some distinct features, as speakers deal with and adapt to the pressures of “real-time processing,” resulting in a “step-by-step assembly” of speech (Cullethe, nature and characteristics of conversational English itself lead to several distinct grammatical features of spoken English as speakers try to fulfill the interpersonal and interactive functions of spoken language in real-time). Not learning features of spoken grammar can impede students’ ability to speak English fluently and appropriately (Mumford 2009).

Grammar is the heart of language: grammar and its role in language learning among Finnish university students. It seems evident that language education can benefit from the knowledge of learner views in specific speech communities (Niedzielski & Preston 2003; Preston 2004, 2006; Wilton & Stegu 2011). “Grammar is learning of the structure of language. The basis for spoken and written language”.

Speechnotes is a wonderful professional speech recognition text editor. It gives accurate speech recognition, right from your browser. Just head to Speechnotes.co; click on the microphone button and start dictating. You can then copy and paste the text into any application you want. It could be Gmail or Word. It is that simple. No registration and no payment.

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This research will take place at Universidad Tecnologica Oteima in Santiago.  It is located in Canto del Llano in Santiago. The population in this intervention will be twenty students from the Bachelor´s Degree in English where they are going to be exposed to Speechnotes app in order to improve their speaking skills.

This study is very important because it would present English Freshmen Students another way to improve their most common mistakes in English which is the conjugation of the third person singular when speaking. At the end of this period, students should be able to conjugate verbs appropriately without any problem.

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Tense is very important in communication. Simple Present is used to express an habitual action.  In English, each sentence always contains a tense. Ratna (2013: 159) states, “In making a sentence in English either written or spoken, tense plays a very important role. With this explanation, she emphasizes on giving value to the conjugation of tenses".

Simple Present often makes students confused. This is the case of adding the final -es or -s for the singular third person, for example, she goes to campus every day.

This study would identify the common errors made by the students about their use of Simple Present, more specifically the students’ use of third-person singular verb forms in Simple Present Sentences focused on speaking skills. Subsequently, this study will describe the factors of errors either from the perspective of L1 interference or L2 overgeneralization.

This is the case why we are going to see if the use of speechnotes can improve students speaking skills.

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Language is the essence of what make us human, English language is the second language spoken in the world this fact makes it important.  But there are many factors that has to be consider by learners and teachers in a learning environment, one of this factor is based in the pronunciation of native speaker because there are different manner of articulation, the place of articulation, and the force of articulation that ESL learners do not know how to produce sounds. According to Lado (1964: 70), pronunciation is the use of a sound system in speaking and listening. Here pronunciation is merely treated as the act that happens in speaking and listening. Lado doesn’t mention how the sounds are produced.

In learning English as a foreign language or second language, mispronounce may occur since English phonological system is different from the native language. Lanteigne (2006: 3) confirms that difficulties in learning English occur due to the fact that some of English sounds do not exist in the mother tongue of the learners.

According Peter Roach, 2000 phonetics is the science of speech sounds, which aims to provide the set of features or properties that can be used to describe and distinguish all the sounds used in human language. Having in consideration this explanation about the meaning of phonetics teachers can provide some activities and online tools can improve student’s pronunciation. This type of methodology will help to guide students and how to have a good pronunciation according the positions of fricative labiodental or others sounds.

According to Hamer (2003: 57) Teachers are facilitator and they had to facilitate the students in their English language learning.

teacher must be able to select suitable and appropriate resources to facilitate the students‟ English language learning.

On the other hands, technology has been trending new ways to improve pronunciation and help non-native speaker’s teachers to develop some strategies to avoid the errors that ESL learners make, the teacher needs to realize how important pronunciation is for those students who can not pronounce well and try to implement some strategies to achieve the learner’s goals.

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This reasearch will take place with EFL learners at Universidad de Panama, Darien Branch, mispronounce fricative labiodental sounds /f/ and /v/ during their language classes. Students confuse them because in Spanish those consonants have different sounds. However, for teaching pronunciation, teachers need to master phonetics since the sounds of the English alphabet varies from the Spanish one.
In that sense, this research looks for implementing the use of English Accent Coach Tool to enhance the students’ pronunciation when using those sounds in oral communication skills. This technological tool helps learners by playing a game that uses a variety of voices in the recorded syllables and words.

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Speaking ability is an interactive process of meaning construction that involves both the production and processing of data. It entails an interactive scenario that includes face-to-face dialogues for the purpose of transferring information through the use of language. Its purpose is to communicate with participants while also conveying a message. Students in Panama experience issues with the interactive process, such as a lack of time to utilize English, classroom management, and the capacity to practice intonation in an academic setting.

Some Panamanian students prefer to speak with one another in Spanish rather than English. Other students believed it was a nuisance if they saw other students using English in the classroom while studying or simply chit-chatting with their pals. It causes them to have no time to utilize English, causing a few students in Panama to fall behind in terms of using English as an international language when compared to students in other nations. However, regardless of the phonological element structure assumed for an English intonation contour, we can distinguish between two general structural aspects of the pit, according to Halliday (1967).

Based on the foregoing description of the Intonation difficulties, there is a likelihood that the introduction of technology will have a good impact on freshman BA in English students. This study will look into The Use of Screencast-O-Matic to improve Intonation in freshman BA in English students at Universidad Técnologica Oteima, especially when it comes to using a computer for pedagogical purposes.

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This research was conducted to freshman’s BA in English at Universidad Técnologica Oteima sede Santiago, in order to discover the causal relationship of SOM (Screencast-O-Matic) towards speaking competence.

With this research we are trying to describe the implementation of SOM (Screencast-O-Matic) in the improvement of intonation in the English language.

Besides, with the use of SOM (Screencast-O-Matic) learners will be able to listen and reproduce something closer to the right pitch when speaking in English.

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The reason why we have chosen this particular topic is based on that most freshmen learning English as a second language have difficulties producing the right pitch when talking.

So, by acquiring the correct intonation and improving their conversational skills students will be able to engage more thoroughly with teachers and help others to improve as well.

Finally, using Screencast-O-Matic will not only benefit students learning English as a second language, but it will also help English facilitators provide a closer English Intonation (pitch) to master the Language in an easier way.

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Reading comprehension is an important aspect in human learning. It is a fundamental part because it increases a new knowledge and in rich the vocabulary in an individual way. The objective is to get information in which the writer can transmit through a text the information to enrich the experiences and to improve reading ability.

According to the authors (Harris and Graham, 2007). Reading comprehension is the process of constructing meaning by coordinating a number of complex processes that include word reading, word and world knowledge, and fluency Readers comprehend a text when they are able to communicate with a text.

In other hands, reading comprehension is interaction between the readers and the text in order to catch the information from written text. Besides, teaching and learning reading, the students are expected to be able to comprehend the reading passages they read well.

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Students from  6 grade at atalaya elementary school will be part of this research. Our study will be develop among a  population  of  23 students .

In this research we will implement a technological tool that is going to help us with our study about the problem of pronouncing correctly the simple past tense verb inflections.

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First of all, we choose this topic the pronunciation of simple past tense verbs inflections because pronunciation is the heart of communication in any language. The importance of having a good pronunciation is a key in order to master a language and become fluent in its use. Secondly, the mispronunciation of simple past tense verbs inflections is a common learning problem for our 6th graders students since they must recognize voiced and voiceless sounds in order to pronounce the different simple past tense verbs inflections.

Finally, as facilitators we are conscious with the implementation of a technological tool or strategy, we will help not only our students to improve their pronunciation.
Our first contribution is to provide our knowledge acquired during this master program concerning to the use of different virtual platforms, technological tools, applications and upgraded methodologies for the teaching of English as a second language. In addition, we are going to determine how effective is the use of a technological tool for improving a common pronunciation mistake not only for our 6th graders students at Atalaya Elementary School but also for many English as a second language learners around the world. As a final contribution, our research will inspire to other teachers to continue looking for another technological tools and strategies in order to improve any other teaching-learning problems.

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Sounds are fundamental in any language. English is one of the most spoken language in different country for that reason it has been adopted as a second language. The main reason we consider in this topic is pronounciation of  English fricative sounds are articulated by forming a nearly complete stoppage of the airstream. So, teaching pronunciation is necessary to develop speaking skills by practicing and differenciating sounds.
In addition, the use of new tools and strategies for helping students to get or have a good pronunciation and identify fricative sound by giving to the students explanations and practicing sound in order to understand them very clear.
Finally, practicing and using interactive tools to learn about sounds will be beneficial for students because they can learn to differenciate sounds.

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In this research we choose students from computing bachelor degree at Universidad Tecnologica Oteima to identify the level of reading comprehension skills. The population is about 20 students approximately. The students will be to use the ReadTheory website from to beginning of the course until to the end around four weeks during 20 or 30 minutes per class.

In our research we will use ReadTheory website that which to help us to measure the reading comprehension ability of the students during the uses of the tool before and after of your English course.

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When you are starting a new writing project, it’s sometimes helpful to rethink the writing apps in your toolbox. Grammarly is an affordable writing assistant tool that belongs in your toolbox. It’ll help you fix errors in your writing fast and is easy to use. In the following research, we are going to determine the use of Grammarly to improve the students writing in correcting spelling mistakes. Our study will be developed in a pre-experimental design to analyze the effect of using Grammarly application to correct spelling and punctuation mistakes in academic writing at Universidad Tecnologica Oteima. Grammarly is one of the most important and effective apps to use. It is a useful tool for professionals, experts, writers, students, bloggers and, almost everyone, who writes a lot and needs to avoid embarrassing typos and grammatical errors. Its system automatically analyzes your writing and flags the words, phrases, or sentences that need correction or improvement. It does not only help check spelling, punctuation, grammar, and sentence structure; it also offers real-time assistance to improve content’s clarity, cohesiveness, fluency, as well as your vocabulary. Anyone can use it anywhere, but it does require users to be connected to the internet so that they can properly identify mistakes. For example, we found recent research about the use of this application in learners with EFL writing in Indonesia, in the English Education Department, Faculty of Languages and, Arts Education. The research aimed was investigating the use of Grammarly software and in what terms it was more effective in reducing students’ errors in EFL writing. This research used the quantitative approach with a quasi-experimental design. There were 40 university students from the English Education Study Program of a private university in Indonesia. The students were tested at the beginning and the end of the research. The quantitative data were analyzed using the t-test formula. The results of the research confirm that the students whose work is evaluated by using Grammarly have a significant reduction in their errors, according to the finding and discussion of the research it can be inferred that the use of Grammarly application in EFL writing gives positive contributions in reducing errors made by the students. It also encourages the students to be autonomous and independent, for that reason, we can evaluate the impact of using the Grammarly application and determine the effect  it has in correcting spelling mistakes, especially in an EFL class at the Universidad Tecnlogica Oteima..

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This study will be developed in a pre-experimental design to analyze the effects of the use of Grammarly application to correct spelling and punctuation mistakes in the academic writing at Universidad Tecnologica Oteima. Furthermore, to develop this research and collect the data the research population will be the English student’s department at Universidad de Panama. Besides, Students in the first level of the English Education Study Program at Universidad Tecnologica Oteima will take part in this study. This will be selected randomly as research samples.

Next, Students will compose the academic writing as a pre-test to determine the student’s difficulties, has in spelling and punctuations in academic writing at Universidad Tenologica Oteima, with the collaborative participant pre-testing method will use. I choose this issue of the punctuation errors and spelling mistakes focusing on the composition class because one of the biggest mistakes Spanish speakers makes when writing in English is to assume the Spanish punctuation is the same as in English and ignoring the importance of using punctuation rules in academic writing. It will be beneficial not only to our students and ourselves, but other English teachers and students facing the same punctuation errors in academic writing

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Writing is one of the English Skills that should be mastered by the students of English Education Department in any level and the importance of spelling has been questioned in recent years. Everyday millions of people use some kind of tool to improve their way of communication orally and writing. The rapid development of technology has caused a significant change in human life, for that reason I can find a lot of effective online tools that help us, like grammarly application.Grammarly is an effective software to help teachers and learners in correcting EFL writing and spelling mistakes. It helps you to find the perfect words to express. The problem of this research is to identify the punctuation errors and spelling mistakes students usually make. Also it is important to use proper punctuation while writing. There is a necessity to improve punctuation and spelling mistakes. This study will help learners and educators with this issue in any English teaching field. As a new technological tool like Grammarly

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The reading is a fundamental skill in the teaching and learning process that involves the capacity of the learner to acquire the knowledge but the reading is not an only mechanic process . Also, It is the ability to comprehend and understand the content of a specific text using the reading comprehension skill as a tool to catch the main idea that you are reading.

The reason of this topic is identify the problems that the students find at the moment to read and comprehend a text. For that reason, the reading comprehension is a skill that the students need to develop during the English language learning process. For this situation we will to use ReadTheory website to enhance the reading comprehension through of this educational tool.

Finally, using the ReadTheory website help us to motivate the students to read using this tool as a method to comprehend the text easily and useful way. Beside, the learners will be able to increase their vocabulary, reinforce grammar structure and develop their self-learning solving quizzes, answer question, move to the level difficulty and website feedback.