TIC: uso de instagram para promover micro-habilidades de lectura para mejorar resultados ICFES

Abstract

The following document is part of an intervention that seeks to explore the possibilities of the use of Instagram in English language classes as an academic tool for teenagers, who are between 14 and 16 years old, those are 11th graders students in the Bilingual school San Juan de los Pastos located in Bogota D.C. The purpose of this internship was to find technological alternatives, related to social networks which are very popular among teenagers, in order to improve English reading skills, mostly reading micro-skills, in a way the population could find fascinating and useful. Instagram was chosen, keeping in mind that it is a mobile-oriented, photo/video-sharing social network site, this tool is not just about sharing pictures or conveying content, since it also could play an important role for educational purposes. This internship will be focused mainly on textual content such as tags, likes, discussions with comments, and academic network relationships. A quantitative method based on questionnaires that consist of a set of questions that were taken from the ICFES web page “cartilla de ingles 2021 and 2022”. We can study the effectiveness of the use of this tool to enhance ICFES results in a friendly and kindly environment in which the student’s immediate context was taken into account in order to find a great potential for making Instagram an important material and resource for the English language teachers and students.