The vocabulary learning in senior high school

Abstract

This Major Paper proposes different activities to work with vocabulary in Senior High School. A deep analysis is made in what concerns the teaching of English as a foreign language in Cuba and abroad. It also helps teachers handle the vocabulary as a subskill of the language, for it is paramount in the communication process; few can be done in any language without having a vast vocabulary when it comes to communication. Also, the work provides different activities that are easy and according to the psychological characteristics of the Senior High School students in Cuba. The levels of assimilation were also taken into consideration for students and they are in need of activities that demand from them effort and thinking attitudes. For the elaboration of the work some empirical and theoretical 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 Senior High School, so the objective of this work deals with the proposition of different activities to augment the vocabulary areas in Senior High School students. This work also considers some of the most revolutionary theories in what concerns vocabulary learning, 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.