Encyclopedic bits: a tool to increase vocabulary in preschoolers

Abstract

The application of encyclopedic bits increases the vocabulary of preschool children, through a dynamic and continuous program in a procedural and systematic way, increasing their verbal fluency, the knowledge of meanings and the construction of syntax that allow them to communicate and develop their vocabulary, evidenced in the words they use (productive vocabulary) and the words they know (receptive vocabulary). The research shows the results of a study whose objective was to determine to what extent the application of contextualized encyclopedic bits increases the vocabulary of five-year-old children in an early childhood education center in the province of Chiclayo. The quantitative method and the pre-experimental design with a single group were used. The instruments used were: a checklist, adapted to pre-school children and an evaluation booklet, elaborated by the researchers, used as a pre-test and post-test for the participating children. The results were optimal, showing that the children's vocabulary increased by 100%. It is concluded that the application of a program of encyclopedic bits framed within the constructivist approach produces positive effects on the vocabulary of preschool students