Enhancing Groupwork and Cooperative Learning in the EFL Classroom: Vocabulary Acquisition to Describe

Treball Final de Màster Universitari en Professor/a d'Educació Secundària Obligatòria i Batxillerat, Formació Professional i Ensenyaments d'Idiomes. Codi: SAP419. Curs: 2017/2018.Language learning is the cognitive process we go through by employing our innate linguistic competence. When we acquire our mother tongue, we endure some stages distinctively from those used when learning a foreign language. This is one of the reasons teachers should search distinct methodologies or practices for enhancing and motivating students and making the process of learning a foreign language successful. Researchers seek and prove the advantages of collaborative learning. However, this approach was not performed in the English as a foreign language (EFL) classroom neither during my practicum pregrade, nor the master practicum, both carried out in the same high school. This project will present how descriptive and sense adjectives can be easily acquired by working in groups and through cooperative learning with the aim of promoting motivation, oral skills or companionship when learning a foreign language. This paper entails different sections: to begin with, some theoretical framework about group work, cooperative learning and vocabulary acquisition is going to be examined. Secondly, the process of the classroom implementation concerning the objectives to attain, and the activities display can be found. Finally, the outcomes gathered after the sessions will be revised in order to determine the degree of success, to then provide my final conclusions

Evaluating Motivation in the English as a Foreign Language classroom at a Secondary School Level

Treball de Final de Grau en Estudis Anglesos. Codi: EA0938. Curs acadèmic: 2016/2017The teaching and learning of a Second or Foreign Language has always raised the interest of researchers seeking to improve learning outcomes and teaching practices. The aim of this paper is to check the degree of motivation on a number of Spanish students learning English as a foreign language at a Secondary School Institution. To do so, a survey has been developed. The answers gathered from the students have later served to compare the level of motivation and the success students had mastering English. On the other hand, I generated a final assessment to check the knowledge acquired by students belonging to different classes where two distinct teaching methods are used. I have also aimed at comparing how two different teaching methodologies such as Total Physical Response (TPR) and Grammar Translation Method (GTM) influence students’ motivation in the groups observed

Aula de innovación educativa

Resumen basado en el de la publicaciónTítulo, resumen, palabras clave en español e inglesSe describe como la situación de la pandemia, debida a la COVID-19, hizo que desde las escuelas se tuviera que tomar decisiones sobre cómo constituir los grupos burbuja para el curso 2020-2021. Se explica la experiencia de la decisión de hacer el agrupamiento, del grupo clase estable, con alumnos del mismo ciclo y de diferente nivel educativo, para no perder la riqueza de las experiencias previas con grupos de iguales más heterogéneos.Biblioteca del Ministerio de Educación y Formación Profesional; Calle San Agustín, 5; 28014 Madrid; Tel. +34917748000; [email protected]