Implementing And Designing a Vocabulary Study Program: English For Academic Purposes In An Ecuadorian University.

The purpose of this study is to develop and implement a program for learning second language (L2) academic vocabulary with the objective of enhancing vocabulary learning strategies for reading proficiency and comprehension. This specially tailored program, based on language learning research, consis...

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Autor: Moreira Cuadros, Loretta
Tipo de recurso: tesis de maestría
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:Ecuador
Institución:Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral
Repositorio:Repositorio Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:www.dspace.espol.edu.ec:123456789/32043
Acceso en línea:http://www.dspace.espol.edu.ec/xmlui/handle/123456789/32043
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:GRAMATICA DEL INGLES STANDART
INGLES-ENSEÑANZA
VOCABULARIO
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Sumario:The purpose of this study is to develop and implement a program for learning second language (L2) academic vocabulary with the objective of enhancing vocabulary learning strategies for reading proficiency and comprehension. This specially tailored program, based on language learning research, consists of five alternative strategies in order to identify ways of learning academic vocabulary for university level efl learners. Vocabulary knowledge not only implies being familiar with the meaning of a word, but also with its form (spoken, written, and its affixation) and its uses (collocations, grammatical pattern, and limits of its use). My experience as an english teacher of university students is that learners have considerable technical vocabulary because they are required to read texts in english related to their field of study. For that reason, their word knowledge is merely related to meaning by translation.