Vocabulary acquisition in senior high education

Abstract

This paper focuses on a subskill of the language which is determinant for the rest as the lexical approach states without grammar few can be conveyed in the language, without words nothing can be conveyed in the language. Vocabulary acquisition plays an important role in foreign language learning, because words and phrases are an essential part of it. The importance of this topic lies on the need of reinforcing the area in the school to accomplish the aims stated in the syllabus and guide lines. for this reason, this major has the purpose of elaborating a set of technology-related activities to contribute to foster the vocabulary acquisition in English as a foreign language in Eleventh Grade students from Honorato del Castillo Cancio Senior High School. In the work different articles, books and research on the topic are consulted and taken into account. Most of these works indicate that teaching vocabulary may be problematic because many teachers are not confident about best practice in vocabulary teaching and at times do not know where to begin to form an instructional emphasis on word learning. This paper discusses definitions of vocabulary acquisition, and the role of vocabulary acquisition in English learning. Also, this research analyzes the importance of using Mass Media and new technologies in the classroom and finding the ways to foster the vocabulary acquisition. Throughout the development of the paper different methods, tools and instruments were used among them the scientific observation, the survey, the analysis and synthesis, the historical and logical and the descriptive ones. This paper provides a set of activities which are original and related to the students’ profile and the characteristics of the technology they have.