The vocabulary acquisition in students from Enrique Villegas Polytechnique School, in Sancti-Spiritus

Abstract

This Major Paper proposes different strategies to work with vocabulary acquisition in Enrique Villegas Polytechnique School in Sancti-Spiritus . A deep analysis is made in what concerns the teaching of English as a foreign language in Cuba and abroad. It also provides teachers with a set of strategy-based activities related to the vocabulary as a subskill of the language, for it is paramount in the communication process; this work departs from the importance given to the vocabulary acquisition in the text interpretation and comprehension and the few that can be done in any language without having a vast vocabulary when it comes to communication. Also, the work proposes different activities that are easy and according to the psychological characteristics of the students from Enrique Villegas Polytechnique School in Sancti-Spiritus. The levels of assimilation were also taken into consideration for students are needed of activities that demand from them effort and thinking attitudes. For the elaboration of the work some empirical, theoretical and statistical-mathematical methods were put into practice with the aim of clarifying the aspects taken into account in what concerns the teaching and learning of vocabulary in Enrique Villegas Polytechnique School in Sancti-Spiritus , so the objective of this work deals with the application of different strategy-based activities directed to vocabulary acquisition in Enrique Villegas Polytechnique School in Sancti-Spiritus students. This work also considers some of the most revolutionary theories in what concerns the vocabulary teaching, for it deals with the Vigotskiayan theories of teaching and learning entailed to the communicative approach and the linguistic competences as a need for it to be developed.