Implementing effective vocabulary building activities for enhancing communication in English in 11th grade students at Reino de Suecia Institute during the first semester 2019
2019
Gutiérrez, Dalila Aracelis | Briones, Yaritza Mirleny | Talavera Guevara, Antonio
Vocabulary enrichment is a need acquiring a new language. However, this issue, is not seen as a need by some educators most of the time. This problem has entailed incapability in students. The present research paper aimed providing some updated activities for teaching vocabulary with the intention of enhancing communication in students of secondary school in Nicaragua. Five vocabulary building activities were implemented in 32 pupils of 11th grade from Reino de Suecia institute. The observation and the application of interviews eased us the outcomes obtainment. These instruments allowed us to see and confirm the effectiveness of the chosen activities. We were able to identify the activities that were seen and proved as less effective enhancing communication. It was confirmed that some of the activities set out impacted students learning. Remembering presented words and helping them to practice communicative English. Activities like the ones set out in this research can make a change in the vocabulary teaching-learning process in Nicaragua. They have contributed positively in learners as strategies to remember vocabulary more easily and they have been useful in practicing English in a communicative way. Besides, they help teachers to facilitate their teaching process and allow them to apply revamped activities, as a way of avoiding the inappropriate habit of only write words on the board and then eraser them.
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