Mnemonic Keyword Method in the development of vocabulary in efl in fifth year of basic education at “Once de Noviembre” high school.

This study aims to enhance the vocabulary learning process through the Mnemonic Keyword Method. It was applied to students of fifth year at "Once de Noviembre" high school, during three months in the school year 2020-2021. The research is descriptive and correlational with a mixed design of quantitative and qualitative approach. The analysis is based on corpus linguistics methodology through analyzing the corpora of the pre-test and post-test applied to the students using AntWordProfiler which is a multiplatform tool for carrying out corpus linguistic research on vocabulary profiling. Vocabulary profile tool was used to generate statistic and frequency information about corpus and compare the 3 levels of vocabulary based on Paul Nation's research. In addition, File Viewer and Editor Tool allowed to view the different vocabulary levels using a color coding. It also shows the overall coverage of the different vocabulary levels which are 1st 1000, 2nd 1000 and 3 awl 570. The results showed that after the application of the proposal, there was an increase in the list of vocabulary levels among the pretest and posttest. Students in level 1 have increased from 75.2 to 77.1 tokens which is equivalent from 49% to 51%. Level 2 has decreased from 8.9 to 7.9 tokens, which means from 53% to 47%. However, there is a positive increase in level 3 from 0.1 to 0.3 tokens, which means 25% in the pretest and 75% in the posttest. Finally, the total token coverage of the corpus is 84.2 to 85.3. The proposal was validated by 3 experts and 3 users ensuring its viability. To conclude, the developed proposal evidences the benefits of the Mnemonic Keyword Method in the development of vocabulary. In addition, the Mnemonic Keyword Method provided enthusiasm and confidence during the virtual classes.

• Main Author: Chiluisa Taipe, Myrian Verónica (author)
• Format: masterThesis
• Language: eng
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: MNEMONIC KEYWORD METHOD; CORPUS ANALYSIS; ANTWORDPROFILER; VOCABULARY LEVELS; LINGUISTICS
• Online Access: http://repositorio.utc.edu.ec/handle/27000/8194