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* Universidad Cooperativa de
Colombia, Santa Marta branch
Psychologist; Corporación
Universitaria Iberoamericana,
Specialist in integral
development of children and
adolescents,
jalobarros18@hotmail.com,
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-
0222-5572
** University of Pamplona,
Bachelor's Degree in
Mathematics and Computer
Science; Corporación
Universitaria Iberoamericana,
Specialist in integral
development of children and
adolescents,
edermauricio01@gmail.com,
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-
3101-6323
Received: March, 2022
Approved: July 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.31876/rie.v
6i4.238
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iberoamericana.org/index.php
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How to cite:
Barros, J., Mantilla, E. (2023)
Strengthening literacy
processes through frame
animation. Revista
Iberoamericana De
educación, 7(1)
Strengthening of the reading and writing
processes through frame animation
Fortalecimiento de los procesos de lectoescritura a través de la animación
por fotograma
Reforço dos processos de alfabetização através de animação baseada em
frames
Janne Loren Barros Peñaranda*
Eder Mauricio Mantilla Mantilla**
Abstract
Building knowledge involves teaching methods accompanied by
strategies, for education these components are necessary and
complement each other, one of these methods are the literacy
processes that are combined with different types of practices to
develop properly; the purpose of this research was to strengthen these
literacy processes through animation by photogram, for this a
qualitative approach was developed under an action research design,
where collecting information was mediated by observation, tests and
didactic sequence.
Keywords: Reading, writing, didactics, technology.
Resumen
Construir el conocimiento implica métodos de enseñanza
acompañados de estrategias, para la educación estos componentes
son necesarios y se complementan, uno de estos métodos son los
procesos de lectoescritura que se conjugan con diferentes tipos de
prácticas para desarrollarse debidamente; el propósito de esta
investigación fue el de fortalecer dichos procesos de lectoescritura a
través de la animación por fotograma, para ello se desarrolló un
enfoque de tipo cualitativo bajo un diseño de investigación acción,
en donde recolectar información estuvo mediado por la observación,
pruebas y secuencia didáctica.
Palabras clave: Lectura, escritura, didáctica, tecnología.
Abstrato
A construção do conhecimento envolve métodos de ensino
acompanhados de estratégias, para a educação estas componentes são
necessárias e complementam-se mutuamente, um destes métodos são
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os processos de alfabetização que são combinados com diferentes
tipos de práticas a desenvolver adequadamente; o objectivo desta
investigação era reforçar estes processos de alfabetização através da
animação por quadro, pois foi desenvolvida uma abordagem
qualitativa sob uma concepção de investigação de acção, onde a
recolha de informação foi mediada pela observação, teste e sequência
didáctica.
Palavras-chave: Leitura, escrita, didáctica, tecnologia.
INTRODUCTION
In the construction of knowledge, teaching methods accompanied by
strategies have been developed over the centuries; these components
are necessary and complement each other; a methodology without
strategies makes the development empty and, consequently, the
processes are not fulfilled. In the work titled Strengthening of the
processes of reading and writing through the animation by frame
(Stop Motion) to the students of the IE-municipality of Victoria-
Caldas, where it is sought not only by means of a pedagogical
strategy, but also playful and technological, being this the base, to
improve the reading and writing from an intrinsic relation of these
two processes.
The proposal is developed with five (5) students aged 7 to 11 years
old from the Cañaveral unitary school, located in a rural area of the
municipality of Victoria-Caldas, where we work with the power to
do, since we do not always have the necessary tools for the
development of the educational task; in order to structure some
theoretical references according to the needs and conditions of the
population context with which we work, we take into account both
Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory and Decroly's Global Method, since
these two authors cover fundamental aspects to take into account for
the research to maintain its course; By structuring a qualitative
methodology of action research type, the research is directed towards
the achievement of the proposed objective and to obtain results that
can be analyzed, described and discussed, in a way that adds
practicality and generates conclusions allusive to the strengthening
of the reading and writing processes.
Consequently, the work is aimed at having the participating students
recognize the importance of knowing how to read and write, but that
this is accompanied by an innovative and striking teaching and
learning process, of interest and relevance, which is why the strategy
invites technology to be part of the achievement. To carry out a work
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of accompaniment and reinforcement, where these reading and
writing processes are really strengthened, without abandoning the
social context of the students and channeling it to work as a source
of information that solidifies the strategy, is a challenge to be met.
We start from the premise of recognizing the shortcomings that occur
in students aged 7 to 11 years of the Educational Institution (IE)
Cañaveral of the municipality of La Victoria-Caldas, regarding the
processes of reading and writing and the lack of pedagogical
strategies used at the time of the teaching process and reach the
significant learning of this subject; it is evident in students some
alterations in reading and writing, therefore, it is transcendental to
recognize the importance of reading and writing in the socio-cultural
environment of students. It can be argued, likewise, that as indicated
by Briz (2002), as cited in Caballero and García (2010):
The student who participates in reading will undoubtedly
improve his social skills, paying attention to politeness,
learning to listen, nuancing his own feelings and emotions,
improving his self-concept and self-confidence, gradually
overcoming shyness or social isolation. (p. 348).
Likewise, Castronovo and Mancovsky (2010) argue that "reading and
writing are competencies that students need to deploy in order to
achieve their academic learning and it is the teacher's task to help
them achieve it" (p. 819), a task that must be accompanied by
innovative methodologies through ICT tools, for example, which are
a good support tool in the educational process, suggesting creativity
and innovation. As a result of all this, children (students) create a link
with reading and writing through these different actions and
mechanisms provided by the teacher (development of pedagogical
strategies: acrostics, writings, narratives, stories, travel examples,
personal experiences).
Reading opens doors to amazing discoveries, allows to explore,
identify and recognize social and individual aspects of human beings;
reading provides knowledge about the world and everything that
exists in it and for this reason, it is a significant tool for learning.
Various experiences or experiences of characters, whether real or
fictional, can be found in different types of literary genres, such
situations contribute to the intellectual and emotional growth of the
reader. Another manifestation is writing, which, in the same way that
reading does, favors the personal advancement of an individual and
aims at making a community more perfectible. According to
Lindemann (1987) "writing is an important part of the
communication process not only as a medium but also as a source of
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power, as a social necessity, and as a way of obtaining knowledge
and solving problems" (Aguilera et al., 2020, p. 5).
In the eternal living, the human being is in persistent change,
learning, from birth, looking for how to communicate with the
environment where it transits and the importance of starting to
generate emotional and social ties with their parents, lead to create
and develop language modifications, gestures, signs, allowing
mutual understanding, personal, emotional and intellectual growth.
The child begins to grow and thus enters the world of reading and
writing and tries to forge that creative, critical and dreamy thinking
that leads to something more complex as the codification of words
and the interpretation and reading of them; However, with the
passing of time, there are social changes, added to that, the
incorporation of the school in his daily life, although it allows him to
evolve, it also presents a change in living conditions, confronts him
with traditionalist scenarios that lead to generate uneasiness and
fatigue in the child and in his daily learning.
The answer to why reading and writing are of importance in personal
and social development goes beyond asking these three big
questions: what are they, what are they for, and what determines
them? Well, we would reach a point where it would be tortuous not
only to answer them, but also to inculcate them; these two topics long
ago, showed such tortuosity in which reading was a privilege and
writing was so chaotic, that if a letter was wrongly written, or a word
was misspelled, the punishment made you lose the desire to learn;
Today, reading is not only seen as a compilation of letters, which are
then grouped into syllables and then form words, but it is also seen
as the fact of understanding, enjoying, interpreting and discovering;
according to Iglesias, (2000):
A reading that remained at a purely comprehensive level
would be nothing more than an informative, punctual and
static act. The reflective note is what gives reading its
dynamic and formative dimension. The reader in turn
recreates, constructs anew, starting from the graphic signs,
the images, feelings and thoughts that he impregnates with his
own subjectivity (p. 3).
In context, the advances in technology and creative thinking, literacy
has taken a flight towards what should be considered as learning with
meaning, well constructed and with a different and innovative
meaning; therefore, there is a great commitment as a teacher when
working with these literacy processes, since an effective motivation
to this new adventure called written language and reading must be
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achieved, always taking into account that it is not only important the
structure but also the understanding of the new language.
Nowadays, the alternatives are more variable and interactive and
allow the educational teaching method to go beyond the theoretical;
it is essential to recognize that new technologies, as well as the use
of social networks (Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, among
others), influence children and adolescents to give up the good habit
of reading and writing earlier and earlier, as well as the emergence,
exploration and representation of their own expression skills,
assuming as a main challenge the recognition of the relationship that
exists today between technology and the educational process.
Adding to this, the influence that digital tools have on the
pedagogical methodologies and thinking about the inclusion of these
in the rural school, to strengthen the literacy processes in students
and weigh those difficulties they present, the research is aimed at
finding the correlation between technology and literacy, starting from
the mistakes and shortcomings present in students between the ages
of 7 to 11 years, considering as a basis, the use of the Stop Motion
tool and to demonstrate how this strategy strengthens the literacy
processes.
Reconfiguring the above, there are some previous researches that
have developed the topic in question, such as "Digital narratives and
their impact on reading and writing in second grade students of the
Fiscomisional Sathya Sai Educational Unit of Bahía de Caráquez-
Ecuador", the authors Zambrano and Arroyo (2022), their main
objective was to "analyze digital narratives and their impact on
reading and writing and influence on academic performance" (p. 89);
developing a quantitative approach and describing that their
population were teachers where the most important thing was to
demonstrate the use of digital tools within the framework of reading
and writing skills, they observed that they are locked in the use of a
tool, "Liveworksheets for their techniques, strategies and
pedagogical academic methodology" (p. 89), they do not explore and
even mention that there is no motivational and innovative air to
develop other types of digital strategies within these processes.
In consecution with the research topic, is the thesis work called "La
Lecto-Escritura en el Proceso de Enseñanza-Aprendizaje,
Desarrollo Multimedia Audiovisual", its general purpose
"Determinar la influencia del desarrollo multimedia audiovisual en
el proceso de enseñanza aprendizaje de la lecto-escritura de los
estudiantes" (Macías, 2019, p. 4), thus, contributing to the
achievement of the objective the author developed a methodology
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with a mixed approach both exploratory and descriptive, and thus
search in the composition of the educational process, the literacy
skills in students, in addition, the methodology to reach these by
teachers. A valid conclusion for this research is that Macías finds a
very low level of reading habits, leaving a deficiency in the lexicon
and ability to sustain an effective communication, or describe
situations through writing, these weaknesses are part of the misuse of
electronic devices, making it necessary that both at home and at
school are introduced as methodological tools to encourage reading
and writing, giving these technological means a more complete and
educational function.
A previous work that opens bases to introduce not only the
technological strategy, but also condenses certain skills that should
be taken into account is that of Angulo and Cuesta (2022)
"Implementation of digital educational resources that contribute to
strengthen the reading process in sixth grade students of the
Institución Tecnológica Agropecuaria Matías Trespalacios", they
worked on a methodological design that included the qualitative
approach and participatory action research, to achieve self-reflection
and improve reading and writing skills. They conclude that, with the
execution of their RED (Digital Educational Resource) and the
design of the didactic strategy, they achieved part of their objective,
however they sustain that, at the moment of strengthening reading
and writing skills, it is essential to relate them to cognitive skills,
attention, concentration, memory, perception and communication, all
based on the different stages of maturity of the participating children.
Being a whole set of investigations that distribute the necessary
documentary review to develop the research and that after reading
and analyzing them, are subject to theories that support them, as well
as the present study work based on Vigotsky's Sociocultural Theory
and the Global Method-Method of complete sentences or Decroly
Method; To channel this theory towards the objective of this
research, a contribution expressed by Vigotsky (1979) cited in
Carrera and Mazzarella (2001) is "all learning in school always has a
previous history, every child has already had experiences before
entering school, therefore learning and development are interrelated"
(p. 43). 43); the above, puts in context the importance of development
in society, Vigotsky from his sociocultural approach pointed out
scopes that influence the educational environment, such as: the
advances in their psychological capacities (of students), which are
changing every day, the teacher here emerges as an agitator of
circumstances that feed these capabilities and their transitions.
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Anyway, Lev Vigotsky contributes his concept on language and
writing, where he speaks of functions, as quoted in a website article,
and comments that there have been four specifically for reading to be
an instrument of mediation, those are: "Communicative, Social,
Signaling and Symbolic", with this reading reaches its stimulating
and functional form in learning; for his part, Vigotsky says, about
writing that "writing must possess a certain meaning for children, this
is largely due to three processes that give it that meaning: the
experience of reading-writing, the meaningfulness of children's
writing and the interpretations of the contexts" (Bellón & Cruz, 2002,
p. 58)
This theory is the basis of this study, because the children of the EI
in rural areas relate to their environment, and in turn must have the
inclusion in their educational process of technology, which arises
from the introduction offered by ICT and all its tools, and be part of
innovative strategies, advancing at the same level as other students
with unlimited access. In addition to that, the learning process is,
redundantly, a development process and Vigotsky speaks of
internalization where the school is an agent that promotes
sociological development; and, the intervention with interaction
between the sociocultural group and the individual becomes clearer
and more concise when the school creates culture and integral
development. Thus, empowering students' literacy skills is to
strengthen their social and cultural environment as a basis for
achieving a balance, without further pretensions to help them grow.
On the other hand, to speak of the Decroly method, as mentioned by
the authors Estalayo and Vega (2003), who make a compilation of
the methods for teaching reading and writing, among these the Global
method stands out for this research, also called Decroly Method,
whose beginnings are found around the 1700s, but until 1800 it was
completely structured, and this was by Ovid Decroly in 1904, which
states:
that the Global analytical method can only be applied to
reading and writing if all concrete and intuitive teaching is
based on the principles of globalization in which the interests
and needs of the child are vital when using educational games
as complementary resources for learning to read and write
(Estalayo & Vega, 2003, p. 8).
Decroly (cited by Estalayo and Vega, 2003) infers that this method
has four (4) phases that derive from the maturity of the children, from
their development, these are:
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Comprehension, Imitation, Elaboration and Production, with
characteristics such as: The duration, amplitude and intensity
of these depend on the degree of total maturation: the
imitative capacity, the type of intelligence, the location in
time and space, the mastery of the body schema, etc., that the
group possesses.(p. 9)
The relationships that this method establishes in addition to its stages
are those that are conjugated in the same speech teaching process,
where words, phrases and sentences are recognized; then, in the
method of complete sentences or Global, children are given
components with complete meaning; among the sub-methods that are
used are lexical, Phraseological and Contextual.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
The qualitative approach is chosen because, in the words of Sánchez
(2019), this type of research can be conceptualized as a
"methodological procedure that uses words, texts, speeches,
drawings, graphics and images, whose purpose is to analyze and
understand the social life of the individual under study, through the
meanings acquired and developed by him/her" (p. 104). A type of
research is used that accounts for the interest of directing towards the
experiences, purposes, actions and knowledge of the students who
are part of the focus group, so the descriptive type is chosen with a
design of Action Research (AR), this design because the AR is
conceptualized as a strategy that allows the creation of spaces for
collaborative learning, where the contributions they have are
essential for the success of the project, because the issues addressed,
require experience and knowledge by all the participating social
actors.
The research proposal is developed in the IE Cañaveral of the
municipality of La Victoria-Caldas, located in the east of the
department, has seven unitary schools (only primary) and two main
schools with primary and high school. This institution specializes in
bird watching because of the geographical area where it is located, it
is a reserve, one of the largest nationally and globally. Being a
technical institution has modalities, one of these is the production of
the context, that is, to develop the products of their region such as
rubber, coffee and livestock; they also have agreements with the
SENA to focus on tourism, due to the arrival of many people for bird
watching; with Comfama for English studies and with the University
of Manizales for university in the field and leave with the title of
Technologists in the environment. As the target population, we work
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specifically in the rural Cañaveral branch with unitary school mode,
where we work with five (5) students aged between 7 to 11 years,
this will make the inclusion of students who attend in the rural area
and can be part of innovative strategies that lead them to strengthen
reading and writing.
The following procedure specifies the phases followed and the
instruments used in each one of them.
Phase 1. Diagnosis
The diagnostic or identification phase allows to fulfill the first
specific objective, determining and defining the difficulties related to
reading and writing, which are present in the five students who are
part of the unitary school model of the Cañaveral Educational
Institution, rural site, and who are between the ages of 7 and 11 years
old. After the contextualization of their population environment, a
diagnostic test is carried out as a first activity, which allows
evidencing the basic concepts of each of the students belonging to
the sample, concerning the basic skills and competences of reading
comprehension and creative writing, based on different situations
presented. Additionally, a table of participant observation is made,
composed of thirteen items, which allow a qualitative evaluation of
the achievements to be improved or surpassed of each student.
Phase 2. Implementation
Phase two of development or implementation, complies with the
specific objectives two and three, with a view to carry out a
succession of activities that allow the strengthening of reading and
writing skills in the five students, incorporating the Stop Motion tool
as a pedagogical and didactic strategy. For this phase, a didactic
sequence is carried out, which aims to increase the children's reading
and writing skills. The sequence is made up of five activities which
are carried out according to these two processes, but jointly, of
several short texts and which will be captured later by means of
graphics, drawings or handicrafts made in plasticine, to create a series
of photographic captures and make a Stop Motion.
Similarly, a field diary is kept, focusing attention on certain aspects
and having clarity between what is described, in order to keep a
faithful record of what was observed (description) and the comments
that arise in the course of writing (assessment).
Finally, there is an exit test consisting of a reading comprehension
activity, with the help of the text "the language of bees", followed by
a writing and schematization exercise taking into account different
characteristics and a situation that each student will be free to choose.
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A self-evaluation survey is also carried out to show the effects of the
use of Stop Motion as a tool to strengthen reading and writing.
Phase 3. Analysis and discussion of results
By means of the data collected when developing the instruments
proposed in this research, such as: diagnostic tests, observation table,
field diary, didactic sequence, exit test and self-evaluation survey,
results are obtained that are remarkable for the research, allowing to
recognize the effects caused by the Stop Motion tool, facing the
strengthening of reading and writing in the students of the unitary
school modality of the I.E Cañaveral, rural headquarters. Similarly,
the relevant information is selected through the recognition of the
answers obtained from each student, in order to see the efficiency of
the proposal; from there, an exhaustive analysis is made, taking into
account that the instruments such as diagnostic test, observation table
and exit test, are analyzed through Excel (graphs and tables), which
allow evidencing the basic knowledge and the evolution obtained by
the five students. Likewise, with an evaluation rubric, a data analysis
of the knowledge or strengthening acquired through the development
of the didactic sequence is carried out, allowing to observe and
inquire about the skills and deficiencies that were presented.
RESULTS
The different analyses of the instruments used are presented below,
taking into account the fulfillment of each of the objectives proposed
at the beginning of the research and which allow us to demonstrate
whether or not each of the proposed goals was achieved.
Objective One
Diagnose the difficulties related to reading and writing, present in the
students of I.E Cañaveral.
Diagnostic Test
For the diagnostic or entry test conducted to the 5 students of the rural
branch of the El Cañaveral Educational Institution, three (3)
statements were presented to them, which qualitatively and
subjectively, highlighted the interest, skills and shortcomings of each
of the students, and whose objective was to identify and recognize
the teaching-learning of literacy, The objective was to identify and
recognize the teaching-learning of literacy within the school context,
presenting several texts, each one with multiple choice answers, in
addition to two items, which allowed each student to personally
choose a phrase or beginning of a text, to later make a development
and ending or tell a story based on certain characteristics found in the
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beginning of the text already provided. Therefore, for their analysis
and understanding, the following results were obtained.
Regarding the first reading entitled "the wolf in sheep's clothing", it
can be analyzed and concluded that although the five students
answered the two questions according to the reading of the text, in
question number one (1), only one student got it right, underlining
the answer "A". Likewise, for question two, related to the moral or
reflection that they inferred from the text previously read, only one
of them answered correctly, underlining the letter "B". It is clear to
conceive through the analysis of the answers, that there is a low
reading comprehension among students, highlighting the need to
transform the strategies they have for learning new knowledge, being
also notorious that nowadays, reading habits are increasingly scarce,
where there is greater apathy and little stimulation on the part of
students to incorporate it into their daily lives.
Similarly, we observe the answers given in reading two, entitled "La
rana Dorotea", where the majority, that is, 60% of the students,
assured that the correct answer was "A", reading and interpreting the
assigned text erroneously, since the correct answer for this case was
"C", where only 20% got it right. Again, this type of assignments and
answers by the students, allows reaffirming the low quality in terms
of reading comprehension, and also allows evidencing that in many
cases, it is due to the fact that students do not have the intention of
including in their daily life and everyday life, reading in moments of
leisure and education, also considering that times have changed a lot
and the approach is not the same, given that books have become
increasingly boring and insignificant, unremarkable and the level of
demand in the institutions and due to the pandemic and post-
pandemic times, have created a different level of demand, where in
many cases, it is preferable to choose the cell phone, Tablet or
computer due to the applications or for its stimuli, since it does not
require the same effort needed to read diverse texts.
The above, allows us to conclude that in the five students who
performed the exercises mentioned above, none of them satisfactorily
fulfilled what was proposed (without demeriting the effort made),
thus evidencing the difficulties in the aspects of reading and writing,
and recognizing that knowledge is a tool that must continuously tend
to the strengthening of learning, and thus proposing the Stop Motion
instrument through selective readings that adjust to the interests and
tastes of each student, previously diagnosed, according to their
thoughts, abilities, age, context and school standards according to the
area of language, to achieve it.
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Objective two and three
Design the pedagogical proposal based on the processes of reading
and writing and the technological tool Stop Motion animation.
Implement the pedagogical proposal through the didactic sequence
to strengthen the reading and writing processes.
Didactic Sequence-Evaluation Rubric
In order to examine the data collected through the didactic sequence
carried out with the five (5) students belonging to the unitary school,
rural site, and who are between the ages of 7 and 11 years old, in
addition to the field diary, the rubric was implemented as the main
tool for analysis, The rubric was implemented as the main tool of
analysis, which allowed evaluating the recognition and strengthening
of reading and writing through the incorporation of the Stop Motion
tool, by measuring seven aspects or key criteria, among which
comprehension, synthesis and creative skills are taken into account,
and which allowed evidencing the results shown below.
Criterion One: Analysis of the content of a text.
To evaluate each of the criteria that are part of the rubric for the
analysis of the didactic sequence, a score was made, which from one
to four, allows to qualitatively qualify, depending on the
performance, each of the students. For criterion one, related to the
analytical capacity of each one of them, the maximum score was
based on the distinction of the parts that made up a text, as well as its
relevance, allowing the generation of questions that inferred the
meaning of the words and constantly recapitulating what was read,
thus gathering the necessary information to continue with criterion
two. Within this item it was possible to observe and analyze that:
It is of interest for this research and content analysis was used as a
criterion, because it is based on a qualitative interpretative approach,
which allows and facilitates a descriptive and thorough study of the
forms, models and patterns that make up a text; taking into account
that the results were studied qualitatively and individually, since they
are subject to the interpretation and actions of each student in each
situation or text exposed during the didactic sequence, it was
observed that 20%, that is, 1 of the 5 students, although they manage
to distinguish the important characteristics related to the different
texts, 60% make an effort to evidence each one of the structures and
parts of a text, reconstruct and draw ideas from it, to later analyze the
data presented, and as they advance in the development, they look for
more data to reach an optimal conclusion and result.
On the other hand, it is necessary to insist that offering students an
educational environment where they feel that literacy is a significant
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part of learning, recognizing their opinion and participation during
the academic process, always through argumentation, will generate a
critical and analytical educational environment where each one can
demonstrate whether their hypotheses are valid or not, listening and
interacting at the same time with their peers, rethinking their
arguments, conjectures and thus enhancing classroom practices.
Criterion Two: Information Synthesis
For purposes of assessment and qualitative and interpretative
evaluation of the data collected for the analysis of the didactic
sequence, the second criterion within the rubric was the synthesis of
information, which came from the various exercises and statements
found in the workshops, recognizing that this item arose from the
need to know and select strategies that would allow students to adapt
more to the nature of the text and the activities to be performed, also
seeking to establish a correlation between reading, writing and the
use of a technological tool such as stop motion, allowing the student
to move towards the use of a critical and constructivist approach,
through a process of organization, codification, graphing and
systematization, thus obtaining the following data:
For the compilation and synthesis of the information found in the
process of comprehension, analysis, compilation and creation, given
in the different workshops that are part of the didactic sequence, it
was obtained that 80%, that is, 4 of the 5 students, were able to
adequately carry out the proposed processes, however, they had some
problems regarding the interpretation of the concepts, ideas and
therefore the arguments presented and the creation through the use of
the digital tool.
Criteria Three to Six: Evaluative on the creation of texts and
localization of Ideas according to their level of importance.
These criteria were grouped together, since they are related and
constitute a set of previous knowledge or dependent parts that are
linked to comprehension of different kinds, which not only seek to
observe but also to analyze the results in order to improve learning
with respect to reading and writing, recognizing that comprehension
is one of the most important aspects for a good and optimal
argumentation of the results that are subsequently obtained (together
with the previous criteria).
In this way, it is well known that for most students, reading and
writing has been altered and diminished due to social factors such as
the pandemic, and in a certain aspect has been displaced due to the
use and boom of technology, however, the purpose of the didactic
sequence and research in general, is to allow demonstrating to
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students that technology can be an ally in learning, recognizing that
ICT in the words of Graells (2000, Cited by Rey 2018) can be
conceptualized as "a set of technological advances, made possible by
information technology, telecommunications and audiovisual
technologies, which provide tools for the processing and
dissemination of information and allow having various
communication channels" (p. 15)
Thus, in general terms, it can be stated that the best ally of these tools
is the Internet, which has led society to a path where information is
easier and faster to obtain, and which allows the transmission of
knowledge through the use of technology, creating a faster and more
efficient education in the life of each person, thus becoming a
strategy that allows strengthening the educational process, It also
highlights the need to continuously transform learning strategies,
recognizing the competencies and all those skills that are inserted
within communication, whether written or oral, since they are
described for reading and writing as essential elements (such as
teamwork, innovation, autonomy, problem solving, among others).
Taking into account that, nowadays reading habits are becoming less
and less, due to apathy and little motivation on the part of the students
and because in many cases books have become boring elements, not
very attractive and that nowadays it is preferable to choose a cell
phone, Tablet or a computer for its stimuli and because it does not
require the same effort used to read different texts, The Stop Motion
tool was incorporated in each activity of the didactic sequence, thus
finding that the students were more motivated, reacted more
creatively and willing to perform each activity and the process of
strengthening literacy increased and changed since it was necessary
that to create a sequence of images they first read or write, analyze
and create in words, and then translate them into images.
The results throughout the process were increasing and were well
received by the five students, who commented and gave as an
observation at the end of the process, that it was a good option not
only for this subject but for the others, since it allowed them to
interact more with the different contexts, imagine, create and argue
from another perspective.
Criterion Seven: Image-Textual Information Relationship
Regarding the present criterion, concerning the existing relationship
between the different graphic representations and the information
presented in the form of texts, it can be affirmed that these were
dependent on different points of view, in which the learning and use
of reading and writing plays an indispensable role, since they allow
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a better understanding as long as the students do not make the
illustrations in a mechanical way or without being clear about their
purpose. In other words, the work can be supported by the use of
images and/or diagrams, whose purpose is simply to facilitate the
understanding of concepts, supporting and helping a better analysis
and a clearer study between the components of a text and the context
in which it is found.
Regarding the results and scores according to the evaluation rubric,
in most cases, the students were able to create a comparison and give
a different meaning or according to their creativity about the texts,
actions or situations found in the different activities through the
illustrative representation (individually). It is important to emphasize
that each student was free to imagine, create and write according to
their tastes, beliefs and thoughts, relating and contextualizing the
texts presented with the images evidenced later.
Objective four
To evaluate the impact of the implementation of the pedagogical
proposal on the learning results and effects generated in the
participating students, on the realization and comprehension of the
activities proposed in the frame animation as a tool for the
strengthening of reading and writing.
Exit Test
Once the didactic sequence was carried out with the students, it
generated the strengthening within the development of reading and
writing by means of the Stop Motion tool, the exit test was applied,
which contained the same number of statements as the entrance test,
to later make a comparison between the results obtained at the
beginning and end of each test. According to the data obtained in the
output test, it could be evidenced that:
Regarding the first statement, based on the text "the language of the
bees", it could be evidenced that the students presented a notable
improvement regarding the components related to the reading of
informative and/or argumentative texts on a specific topic. For the
first statement, three questions were taken into account whose
answers were explicit in the text, noting that for the first and second
questions, a favorable answer of 80% was obtained and for the last
question, 100% of correct answers.
Regarding the results obtained in the second statement, related to the
creation of a text by choosing one of the three groups presented, each
one made up of four words, the students also showed an improvement
in aspects such as coherence between sentences and paragraphs,
spelling, presentation of main ideas, adequate use of punctuation
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marks and accents, as well as the use of words that during the
development of the sequence were organized in a glossary.
Finally, for statement three, students were asked to make four
drawings, comic style, in which each of the students created a story
based on a situation presented; for this last exercise, creativity and
design were taken into account, and before making the drawings,
each student was asked to write down the ideas they had about the
situation presented and answer questions such as: What would
happen if...? How do you feel? What aspects have changed or which
remain the same? What will be the reaction of the others around you?
Observing and analyzing the results of the exit test, it is possible to
obtain as relevant data an improvement within the questions that were
established as a pattern in the tests, going from a low level to a high
and superior level, obtaining percentages equal to or higher than 80%
in each of the questions stated and developed, this reveals that there
was a development in reading and writing strengthened and directed
to a higher level than the initial one in the entrance test.
In a first moment of this reflection between the theory that supports
this research and the results obtained, we bring up the phrase already
quoted earlier in this work, which expresses "all learning in school
always has a previous history, every child has already had
experiences before entering school, therefore learning and
development are interrelated" (Carrera & Mazzarella, 2001, p. 43),
with this quote shows the importance of recognizing the social
context of the participating students, each one of them brings along
their previous knowledge, attitudes, skills and characteristics that
have been forged in their first environment, their first environment,
the school. 43), with this quote shows the importance of recognizing
the social context of the participating students, each one of them
brings along with their previous knowledge, attitudes, skills and
characteristics that have been forged in their first environment, the
home.
From the sociocultural approach, with its main author, Vigotsky, who
established as an indicator of great influence in the educational
process the psychological capacities of the students, and this could
be observed in the different stages of this research, but especially in
the development of the activities proposed within the didactic
sequence, where as teachers we had to provoke certain turbulence so
that the children would act and feel that they were feeding back their
capacities and strengthening their knowledge; This occurred because
the students who participated see school as a place of distraction, of
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shelter, and thus this emotional aspect influences the acquisition of
knowledge.
In the review of reading and writing in the sociocultural approach,
the first can be linked as stimulating and functional within the
learning process, then the second, writing manifests itself as
meaning; The reading and writing process, which was the basis of
this research, the search for its strengthening through a pedagogical
strategy, was combined between stimulating learning with meaning
and strengthening what was learned, then, reading to write and
writing to read; the children of the IE Cañaveral cannot afford the
luxury of keeping a defined schedule, because it is not possible, the
way to access the school (due to climate, economic difficulties,
perhaps due to lack of motivation, etc.), the scarce physical resources,
the limited physical resources, the lack of access to the school (due
to the weather, economic difficulties, perhaps due to lack of
motivation, etc.), the lack of resources, and the lack of a pedagogical
strategy, which is the basis of this research.), scarce physical
resources, lack of support from home.
This means that every moment in which face-to-face classes are held
is a unique moment and is the opportunity to magnify the teaching,
that is why it was important to combine reading and writing as a
single process, although it is clear that they are two, but here it is not
about learning to read and write, it is about understanding what is
written and reading what is understood; Therefore, exercising the
correct direction in the children based on the proposed pedagogical
strategy, animation by frame, had to be impressive, innovative and
striking, so that the students would refresh their knowledge about
how to write and read, to transcend to comprehension from their
starting point, from the one each one had.
The inclusion of ICT in this work is part of the cultural context of
this technological era, and therefore it is important for the population
under study to be able to have an approach to this type of digital tools,
since their access is limited in the rural area where they come from.
Here it is necessary to remember "the internalization" of which
Vigotsky states that in the school environment culture is created,
socio-personal development and that there interferes the
psychological development of each actor and the skills that present,
therefore, teachers should promote strategies that combine the
internal aspects and the needs, in order to give results that focus on
improving the environment in which the processes are developed.
If a general review of the initial and final results is made, this research
traveled a path from little to enough, that is, the children know how
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to read and write, the basics in the development of an individual, at
least in front of society, but they ingested each activity as when in the
morning they take a glass of juice and leave for school, with the
vitality of those who want to know; They were able to write from the
imagination, from a simple perspective to a complex one that led
them to continue a reading and writing process, idealizing reading as
a way of demonstrating what was written and beyond what was
understood.
Thus, the other theoretical part that constitutes this research, which
complements Vigotsky, is the Global Method-Complete Sentence
Method or Decroly Method, where students expressed their needs,
their interests and the way to give them priority was sought, focusing
them towards the proposed pedagogical strategy. Therefore, in the
Decroly method there are four phases, which were taken into account
in the real purpose of this work, to strengthen the reading and writing
process; the first is to lead to the understanding of what is written, of
what is wanted to be said, of the demonstration of abilities, that is
why the children devised their story to recreate in sequences by
means of the Stop Motion tool, they remembered how to write their
ideas and strengthened how to realize those ideas, that is, to read them
in a creative way.
The other phases according to the method, imitation, elaboration and
production, were developed by each participant by making their
story, recreating it in different materials, recording it with their own
characteristics that each one of them imposed, such as duration,
amplitude and intensity of their story, all based on previous readings,
improvised writings, and rehearsed ones, each time different needs
arose, reconstructing some previous concepts, reinforcing some
misspelled words, recognizing unknown or little used vocabulary,
spelling, matching sentences with meaning, in short, everything
necessary to strengthen writing and reading as part of the
development of the proposed strategy, or, in other words, to
strengthen writing and reading as part of the development of the
proposed strategy, to reinforce some misspelled words, to recognize
unknown or little used vocabulary, to spell, to match sentences with
meaning, in short, everything necessary to strengthen writing and
reading as part of the development of the proposed strategy, that is,
there was an inversely proportional recognition, from the Stop
Motion strategy to reading and writing, and in turn from this reading
and writing process to the achievement of an animation per frame.
If we review the research from the need to strengthen the reading and
writing process so that the children could obtain a significant effect
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in their learning, we can see that there was influence from social
motivation, the desire for the participants to know the digital tools,
the fact that they could have access, to be part of the advances of this
century, not being condemned for belonging to the rural area,
globalizing their reading and writing skills towards technology,
generated a work where the most important thing was to make the
students find their turning point in reading and writing, without
losing the perspective of understanding and combining these two
processes, but as one, I read and I write, I write and I read.
The power of reading was seen in situations like the influence of the
brevity of a text, like the simplicity of a recipe that taught them that
one can imagine and create, the power of writing where reflecting
ideas in recycled materials led them to design their story and remain
active, creative, implicit within their process of strengthening reading
and writing to a higher level, if not improved from the previous
structure that was contained. The children went beyond the peculiar,
they introduced their social, family and individual framework in their
stories and knew how to manifest frame by frame with writings
processed by reading them.
Generally, in the rural unitary school the school days are short, we
bring up this aspect because we believe it is necessary that the reader
is fully contextualized with the reality lived by the participants of this
study; they are short due to the shortage of water, transportation,
physical resources (notebooks, pencils, markers, etc.), lunch, the
weather is sometimes relentless, among others; This hindered the
work to be developed several times, but seeing the desire to learn of
the participating children was stronger than any shortcoming, so the
objectives were achieved and especially the general purpose was
reached, to strengthen the reading and writing process in each of
them.
CONCLUSIONS
First of all, it is important to remember that the general objective was
to strengthen the reading and writing processes through animation by
photogram in the students of the unitary school of the IE Cañaveral.
To achieve this, four specific objectives were proposed that
conditioned the development of the research and that led to certain
situations that gave rise to results and contributions, which finally
added together led to the fulfillment of the general objective.
Specific objective one, which was to diagnose the difficulties related
to literacy present in the students, called for a series of reflections
from the academic, social and internal environment of each child, as
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well as from the previous manifestations of the subject; That is to say,
in order to reach a diagnosis with reference to the previous
knowledge of literacy that the participants may or may not have, a
contextualization of their environment, their needs and themselves, a
test that gave the conclusion of how they were facing the subject, the
above without conditioning who knows more, writes or reads better,
if qualitative or quantitative qualifications, it was only governed
towards the finding of the difficulties present when reading and
writing.
Necessarily, when conducting the observation during the entry test,
shortcomings had to be described, but in an objective way,
concluding that the children went through confusion in some letters,
more linked to spelling rules, some imbalances when reading, for not
knowing how to pause according to the punctuation, anyway it was
clear that these inaccuracies gave room to the search for a strategy
that would strengthen the reading and writing process and would
result in accurate results towards a better understanding of what is
written and read. The input test resulted in the development of a
diagnosis that will trace the beginning of the next specific objective.
Thus, having a diagnosis that revealed the difficulties in the reading
and writing process made it possible to move on to objective two, to
design the pedagogical proposal based on the reading and writing
processes and the technological tool Stop Motion, a design that
emphasized the search for activities that would resolve the
deficiencies found and that, together with the technology that was to
be used as a method of inclusion, would support the strengthening of
reading and writing; All this gave rise to a didactic sequence based
on a series of situations that will provide each student with creativity,
motivation and willingness to do, this summoning reading and
writing with imagination.
Then, once the proposal was designed, it could be implemented, as
previously stated, it was through the didactic sequence, it was
achieved that the participants will perform each of the activities to
strengthen the processes of reading and writing, it was found that they
had not had direct contact with technological devices such as tablets
and laptops, it was novel and stimulating for and towards their way
of learning. Finally, the fourth and last objective is to evaluate the
impact of the implementation of the pedagogical proposal, this was
done based on a comparative of learning results and effects generated
in the participating students, in addition, through a satisfaction survey
they expressed their conformity on the realization and understanding
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of the activities proposed in the frame animation as a tool for the
strengthening of reading and writing.
The objectives were achieved to the full extent, thanks to the
participation of the students, the impetuous manifesto of wanting to
teach them through technology and creative motivation, and the
commitment to a defined structure of reading and writing combined
as a single temple of learning.
In this section, it is not easy to state whether what was produced in
the unitary school based on the project developed is a generator of
change, it can be affirmed that it had a significant and broad effect
on the children's reading and writing process; But in order for it to be
a generator of change, of improvement in the educational process, it
is necessary to make the educational community (directors, teachers,
parents and students) see the importance of the schools in rural areas,
the needs that afflict them in order to be able to solve the day to day
and comply with the basics in the teaching-learning process.
However, it is tremendously urgent to note from this research, how
the development of strategies that contain the technological element,
is a motivational plus for students, it moves them to discovery, to
strengthen their skills and to want to go beyond; it is not enough that
once a year they can see the computers in the computer rooms of the
urban school, we talk about inclusion, but it is necessary that the
resources reach where they are really needed.
It is difficult to generate expectations when the educational system
blocks progress, solidarity with rural regions is abysmal, in the
opposite sense, because it does not arrive; It is difficult to advance to
a technological era, and although this research shows that the tools
offered by ICT are especially striking, creative and generate
innovative learning, it also shows that the lack of access to internet
and technological devices, these elements necessary to develop
strategies of this type, makes the teaching work difficult, generates
setbacks that must be overcome from the personal, inferring that one
is alone in the educational process.
In any case, it is hoped that with research such as the present one, a
step will be taken towards the construction of the inclusion of the
rural school in continuing education, that which is updated in
knowledge, which seeks that students acquire skills that will lead
them to a professional future, without technological backwardness
and with a personal and social development that contemplates the
human being in all his needs.
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