Cognitive approach to enhance vocabulary in 8TH graders at unidad educativa Teodoro Wolf

Abstract

Cognitive approach is closely connected to the mental processes, and in education this topic has gained ground with different methods to apply in the teaching-learning process. The main objective of the present research project is to enhance vocabulary in 8 graders at Unidad Educativa ‘‘Teodoro Wolf’’ through different activities that include the cognitive side of the students, their analytic and critic side is developed to help them to solve problems or complete some activities related to the vocabulary learning. This method also enriches the memory side of the students owing to everything that were taught to students, they can identify and recognize in the long term. To obtain accurate results, surveys were carried out on 42 students and interviews with 2 professors from the aforementioned institution. The qualitative method was used to deeply analyze the results obtained at the end of the research. As a proposal, a guide was elaborated with different activities where students will develop their cognitive processes to enhance vocabulary.