Descripción:
The research paper “Didactic teaching materials to improve English vocabulary in
preschool students” is divided into the theoretical and the practical part. The
theoretical part provides a general aspect in teaching languages to children and
their development. It also explains the basic terms and principles of teaching
students and methods for children, suitable for these activities at this age.
Recreational activities denote an important motivation for learning, because when
the child plays, at the same time are learning or acquiring new information,
experimenting, exploring and discovering their environment, and introducing
them into games as teaching strategies provides them fun to stimulate the
development of communicative competence. For the development of this
investigation, it was important the application of different methods, such as,
qualitative, quantitative, and deductive-indictive.for each method previously
mentioned, different instruments were applied in order to collect information. The
application of the qualitative method allowed the implementation of surveys;
therefore, the principal from Unidad Educativa “Carrera Sánchez Bruno” and one
English language teaching expert were interviewed providing current information
about the vocabulary instruction and the importance of using didactic resources
during this process. Moreover, the quantitative method allowed the application of
surveys to the fourteen preschool students’ parents and English teachers; this
collected information was included in this research paper by using charts and
statistical graphics in order to present parents and teachers’ responses.