Adecuación Curricular para Incremento del Vocabulario del Idioma Inglés en los Estudiantes de Octavo Año de Guayaquil

Abstract

The main purpose of this research is to analyze the incidence of curricular adaptation towards the increase of the English language vocabulary in eighth grade BGE students of public education in Guayaquil city. It was necessary to describe some factors such as the lack of an English curriculum in primary school to provide a solid base of knowledge of that language, the higher academic content compared to the primary school years. The focus was mainly on the curricular design currently applied to study how its application determines the academic performance in terms of vocabulary acquisition and the students' language learning and mastery. The study was developed under a cross-sectional, non-experimental, and descriptive field research methodology, with a quantitative approach. A survey-type tool was designed to evaluate the information, and the 24-question questionnaire was applied to 469 eighth-grade English teachers from public education in Guayaquil city. The findings showed low efficiency in vocabulary acquisition in those students due to the lack of a curricular adaptation. This research concludes that English learning improvement in Guayaquil city should be based on a curriculum adaptation. The application of a previous diagnosis of the Lexi level is our recommendation.