Morales Carmen

Resumen: N FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING CONTEXTS, VOCABULARY ACQUISITION IS SOMETIMES PERCEIVED AS A SOLITARY ACTIVITY WITH WORD LISTS AND FLASH CARDS FOR MEMORIZATION. HOWEVER, IT IS POSSIBLE TO CREATE VOCABULARY LEARNING TASKS THAT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT BOTH INDIVIDUAL AND COOPERATIVE EFFORTS IN A COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT THAT PROMOTES ENGAGEMENT AND MOTIVATION. THE PAPER PROVIDES AN ACCOUNT OF THE VOCABULARY LEARNING AND TEAMWORK STRATEGIES EMPLOYED BY A GROUP OF ECUADORIAN TEACHERS AND STUDENTS WHO TOOK PART IN AN INTERNATIONAL ONLINE VOCABULARY TOURNAMENT UNDER THE UNPRECEDENTED CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE COVID-19 LOCKDOWN IN 2020. THE DATA ANALYZED INCLUDE REFLECTIVE VOCABULARY JOURNALS AND THE WHATSAPP MESSAGES EXCHANGED. THE AUTHORS CONCLUDE THAT IN ADDITION TO THE DISCOVERY AND CONSOLIDATION STRATEGIES FOR VOCABULARY LEARNING, THE TEAM’S COOPERATIVE INTERACTIONS COMBINED WITH A HIGH LEVEL OF SOCIAL MOTIVATION HAVE SIGNIFICANTLY CONTRIBUTED TO THEIR SUCCESS.

Resumen: REFLECTIVE INQUIRY HAS NOWADAYS BECOME AN ESSENTIAL SKILL FOR EDUCATORS, TUTORS, AND PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS. AN EDUCATOR’S CONCERN INSIDE THE CLASS INCLUDES OBSERVING THEIR CLASSROOM REALITY, IDENTIFYING ISSUES, PROPOSING SOLUTIONS, AND REFLECTING ON THE LESSONS. THEREFORE, RESEARCH TRAINING NEEDS TO BECOME AN ESSENTIAL PART OF PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS’ ACADEMIC LIFE, NOT ONLY FROM A THEORETICAL VIEWPOINT BUT AS A REFLECTIVE APPROACH, TOO. IN THEIR BOOK, DIKILITAŞ AND BOSTANCIOĞLU HIGHLIGHT THE IMPORTANCE OF RESEARCH TRAINING AND INQUIRY SKILLS AS INVALUABLE KNOWLEDGE FOR PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS. CURRENTLY, THERE IS A GROWING NUMBER OF PUBLICATIONS THAT CONTAIN REPORTS ON ACTION RESEARCH IN ELT, SUCH AS BULLOCK AND SMITH (2015), MACKAY, BIRELLO, AND XERRI (2018) AND BANEGAS ET AL. (2020). MOST OF THESE WERE PRODUCED BY IN-SERVICE TEACHERS, BUT THERE IS A LACK OF SYSTEMATICALLY LAID OUT HANDBOOKS THAT FOCUS ON TRAINING PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS IN RESEARCH SKILLS OR PROVIDE ACTIVITIES TO HELP THEM DEVELOP THESE SKILLS. THIS VOLUME COMES AS A RESPONSE TO THE NEED THAT PROSPECTIVE LANGUAGE TEACHERS HAVE FOR LEARNING INDUCTIVE REFLECTION AND THE BASICS OF RESEARCH.

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