Implementing effective vocabulary building activities for enhancing communication in English in 11th grade students at Reino de Suecia Institute during the first semester 2019

Vocabulary enrichment is important when learning or 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 vocabular...

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Autores Principales: Gutiérrez, Dalila Aracelis, Briones, Yaritza Mirleny, Talavera, Guevara Antonio
Formato: Monografia
Idioma: Español
Español
Publicado: FAREM-Estelí 2019
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Acceso en línea: http://repositorio.unan.edu.ni/11303/
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Sumario: Vocabulary enrichment is important when learning or 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. 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 words more easily and they have been useful in practicing English in a communicative way.