Total Physical Response Strategies To improve vocabulary with 6th-grade students at the Enma Graciela Romero School of Tabacundo in the academic year 2022 – 2023

Abstract

In the modern world, English has become the most important international language for communication between people of different cultures. Therefore, English proficiency has become an essential skill for students. This is especially true for sixth-grade students at the Enma Graciela Romero school in Tabacundo, Ecuador, where English is taught as a compulsory subject. In the present investigation, the objective is the implementation of an educational strategy called Total Physical Response to improve English vocabulary in 6th-grade students of the "Enma Graciela Romero" school located in the city of Tabacundo, province of Pichincha in the academic period 2022-2023. Next, a sequence of theoretical foundations was ruled to support the implementation of the aforementioned strategy with respect to the improvement of vocabulary in English which includes two main skills such as listening and speaking. Subsequently, this study was carried out based on a mixed methodology that used different research methods, such as interviews and surveys to later collect, analyze and interpret the data obtained. Therefore, quantitative, and qualitative methods are involved in this research because they offer a unique and broad perspective on the perspective of both the teacher and the student as main educational actors. The results obtained showed that the use of physical movements and the use of interactive material to improve the English language are frequently present in the English classes of sixth-grade students. Therefore, it is analyzed that incorporating fun and interesting strategies where students worry about performing physical movements helps to improve the vocabulary of the contents in the second language. As a result, a didactic guide is provided where the use of active teaching methods through games is proposed to motivate and improve vocabulary through the association of words with movements to stimulate the retention of information in sixth-grade students.