Implementing Kahoot platform to improve student's vocabulary learning in 6th grade students from Domingo Savio School in Santiago, Chile

Abstract

This action research p roject is focused on how teachers plan strategies or methodologies for students to increase the use and the acquisition of vocabulary taking technologies into use. This research study is based on the use of Kahoot application to improve students’ vocabular y while they are learning English as a foreign language. This project was executed throughout six sessions in a school located in San Ramón called Colegio Salesiano Domingo Savio. A pre posttest were applied to a group of students at the begin sessions in which the study was implemented. Along with this, a pretest and a ning and at the end of the survey was applied in order to see if the students were interested in the use of Kahoot and English as a whole. Whereas the postsurvey was applied to see the im pressions after using the Kahoot application and their thoughts towards the English language. After the implementation of our project, the analysis and results are presented in this study.