Influence of pictures on the acquisition of English vocabulary in 8th grade students at Colegio REACH, during the second semester of 2014
The topic chosen for this research is the Influence of pictures on the acquisition of English vocabulary in 8th grade students at Colegio REACH, during the second semester of 2014. The title conveys the main purpose: to explore the potential of pictures on the acquisition of English vocabulary in ei...
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| Formato: | Tesis |
| Lenguaje: | Español Español |
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2015
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| Acceso en línea: | http://repositorio.unan.edu.ni/1858/ http://repositorio.unan.edu.ni/1858/1/16381.pdf http://repositorio.unan.edu.ni/1858/8/88x31_cc.png |
| Sumario: | The topic chosen for this research is the Influence of pictures on the acquisition of English vocabulary in 8th grade students at Colegio REACH, during the second semester of 2014. The title conveys the main purpose: to explore the potential of pictures on the acquisition of English vocabulary in eighth grade students at Colegio REACH. Departing from this objective, some instruments were created and established to get information about the topic of our research.
In order to carry out the goal written before, ten classes were applied with different strategies such as, pair and group activities, information gap activities and task
completion activities which are based on Communicative Language Teaching Approach (Richard 2006), and the pictures were presented in different ways such as: collage, cards, pictures, worksheets, games, songs and videos, where students had the chance to develop skill and learn new words in an attractive and easy way. The themes were selected based on the eighth grade English program topics, among them: shopping clothes, sports and games, famous sports people, body parts,ailments, medicine and Wh questions. Most of the lesson plans designed were used
in a period of 90 minutes, another classes were applied in 45 minutes.
At the end of each topic, some assessments, to evaluate students´ learning process were employed. Furthermore, for the last day of this phase, students filled a survey
questionnaire with the purpose obtaining information about the effectiveness of the strategies and techniques developed during this stage. Most of the students were
agree that classes were motivating and funny, also, they expressed preferences about activities such as: videos, songs, games and worksheets.
According with these results, the usage of techniques and methodological strategies written above in the English classes with eighth grade students at Colegio REACH, in
La Trinidad, had a positive influence on the acquisition of new vocabulary and should be used to help students to have a good learning. |
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