bachelorThesis
Effective ICT tools to teach english vocabulary
Fecha
2020-12-03Autor
Zuña Morocho, Edgar Salvador
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Resumen
Vocabulary is considered an essential component of any language since, without it, communication could not take place. Information and communications technologies (ICTs) have played a crucial role in the teaching of vocabulary because of their practical features. However, teachers have been unable to take full benefit of them. Therefore, this research explored the use of ICTs as vocabulary learning tools. It aimed to answer the questions related to which ICTs have been proved to be more efficient in teaching English vocabulary and the advantages and disadvantages of their use. For the present explanatory bibliographic research, 15 scientific articles, in which ICTs were used as learning tools for teaching English vocabulary, were compiled and analyzed. The results showed that applications and websites were the most used ICTs to teach English vocabulary. Additionally, ICTs were found useful to motivate students and enhance their learning performances. The findings also suggested that teachers do not take full advantage of these technologies in spite of the fact that research has proved that ICTs are efficient learning tools.