
Sinergias Educativas
July - September Vol. 6 - 3 - 2021
http://sinergiaseducativas.mx/index.php/revista/
meaning, syntactic function, morphology and spelling. At this point,
the school plays a fundamental role, since it must stimulate children
to acquire a non-standard lexicon, which will stimulate and enhance
the development of speech and listening. Word recognition goes
through the following phases: first, encoding (stimulating with
different lexicons), second, verification (eliminating the lexicon that
does not fit in the sentence), and third, identification (selecting the
correct word). The lexical and formal connections of the words, as
well as their repetition, must also be assessed.
Vocabulary, according to Nation (2001), can be differentiated into
receptive/passive vocabulary and productive/active vocabulary.
Receptive vocabulary refers to our ability to recognize words when
we hear them or see them written, or when we recognize the parts of
their components and assign a meaning to them, if we associate them
with other words or recognize their correct use in the appropriate
context and know with which other words they are presented (p. 28).
Productive vocabulary, on the other hand, is the ability we have to
pronounce or write words correctly, we can divide them and use
them in different contexts, we know the synonym or antonym, we
can form sentences and exchange the original words of the sentence
for other words (p.24). We can say then, that when we talk about
passive vocabulary, we refer to our reading and listening skills, and
when we refer to active vocabulary, it refers to oral and writing
skills. (Villegas, 2010).
In school, students acquire most of their vocabulary through
conversations and reading. This will allow that by encountering the
words several times and in different situations, students gradually
learn their meaning and the various uses that each word has. For
example, they learn that the word "tongue" is not only the muscle we
use to eat and speak, but also means language. On the other hand,
according to research, books are the most important source of new
words for children who already have the vocabulary for oral
communication. This suggests that, in addition to exposing them to
frequent conversations, it is necessary to give them the tools to deal
with the language of written texts and, in this way, to continue
enriching their vocabulary through reading. Therefore, it is essential
for children to read to them and have them read a large number of
texts, taking care that these include some new words that are
accessible to the students' level of comprehension, along with
working with them on the chosen words.
In the classroom, it is important that when teaching vocabulary, we
create in our students, two fundamental attitudes: we must direct
attention to unknown words and arouse curiosity and interest in their
mastery, also, exercise them to mobilize the known words or look