Lexical Borrowing as a Linguistic Support in the Acquisition of the Vocabulary of the English as a Foreign Language
Abstract
The objective of the study is to establish Lexical Borrowing as linguistic support and its relationship in the acquisition and improvement of the vocabulary of the English language as a foreign language in a course of 30 high school students from a public night school. The present study is applied through a qualitative, descriptive investigation with which the improvement of the acquisition of vocabulary in the foreign language is pointed out. In addition, the present project uses several instruments for data collection, these are evidenced through an initial survey with 10 closed questions applied to students and class observation, which provides us with the current situation of the sample based on which this study is carried out. The development and implementation of three classes are included to demonstrate the application of lexical borrowing with students and its validity in the study. At the end of this project, the results obtained are evidenced and the effectiveness and acceptability of this pedagogical proposal for the acquisition and reinforcement of vocabulary is verified. It was found that the use of specific activities focused on the acquisition of vocabulary does contribute to improving the lexicon of the students. Likewise, it is concluded that the linguistic help of lexical borrowing offers teachers a new way to facilitate the acquisition of vocabulary inside and outside the class in an interesting and fun way.
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