Learning tasks for vocabulary acquisition in seventh grade studets at Ernesto Valdés Muñoz high school

Abstract

Vocabulary learning is an important and indispensable part of any language learning process. The author of this thesis focuses on the acquisition of vocabulary through the English lessons for a better development of the communicative skills of the students of seventh grade at Ernesto Valdes Muñoz secondary school. For the research, a bibliographic analysis of the theoretical and methodological backgrounds related to improvement of the acquisition of vocabulary of the Ernesto Valdés Muñoz Junior High School was carried out. The research deals with different scientific theoretical positions and methods that were used to support the criteria selected by the author in order to find the evidences that show the existence of a scientific problem such as: historical-logical to analysis the antecedents of the vocabulary acquisition in different stages, analysis-synthesis to analyze the instruments employed and summarize the elements which were useful in the elaboration of the learning tasks, induction-deduction to deepen into the development of students related to the vocabulary acquisition in the English lessons. The main purpose of this research is to evaluate the effectiveness of the application of learning tasks for improving the acquisition of vocabulary for the seventh graders to strengthen their communicative abilities and skills.