Tesis de licenciatura
The use of teacher’s self developed stories as a technique to teach english vocabulary to children in a third grade of a public primary school
Fecha
2014-09Autor
Ramírez Hernández, Jeannette
Resumen
“Young children are natural language acquirers. They are extremely receptive to
spoken language and learn vocabulary easily. This study explored how young children
learned English vocabulary by listening short stories developed by the English language
teacher. Stories were developed using children´s contextual elements that made the stories
significant. A key component in storytelling was the ´telling´ part, where the teacher (teller)
created voices for each of the characters. In addition, a number of puppets were designed
using a variety of materials which complemented the storytelling experience.
Findings from storytelling showed that children learned English vocabulary, especially
lexicon associated to their immediate context. In addition, participants reported positive
attitudes and reactions towards the use of stories. Overall students responded well to the
activities that were applied after the stories, proving a successful learning.”