Keywords
American Dream
American way of life
American tragedy
self-made person.
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The aim of this paper was to present the results obtained in a study carried out to determine the influence of “authentic printed resources” on the development of speaking skills at the Universidad Técnica de Ambato. The speaking skills in a foreign language is considered as a challenge that students in different stages in Ecuadorian educational system must deal. At the beginning of the study two groups were chosen: experimental and control group. A targeted pre-test in accordance with participants”™ English level, was applied in the designated groups to ascertain their speaking skills development. At the end of the experiment the participants of both groups took a post-test to verify their advance. After the validation of the results the verification of the hypothesis was carried out through the student t-test. The data collected and the achievements made were presented in figures and tables, to demonstrate that authentic printed materials influence and promote the development of speaking skills. Furthermore, the students participated actively, increasing the interaction level in the classroom using English words learned during the experimental classes.References
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