BENEMRITA UNIVERSIDAD

AUTONNOMA DE PUEBLA
FACULTAD DE LENGUAS

Performing T.V commercials

to promote vocabulary and
oral skills development
GEMA ELISA HERRERA ARELLANO
Puebla, Pue.

May, 2015

PROJECT WORK
Project work is a valuable addition to pre-service teaching because it
possesses the following characteristics, as described by Stoller (2002):
a focus on content learning, real-world subject matter, and topics of
interest to learners
student-centeredness
an emphasis on cooperation, which leads to different modes of interaction
adopted by students during the work
authentic integration of skills and processing of information from various
sources
both a process and a product orientation, which allows teacher learners in
the EFL context to develop their language proficiency while cooperating at
different project stages
motivation and stimulation that lead to confidence, self-esteem, and
autonomy

T.V COMMERCIALS
ADVANTAGES?
DISADVANTAGES?

VOCABULARY

Without grammar,
very little can be
conveyed. Without
vocabulary, nothing
canbeconveyed.
(Wilkins ,1972, P.
111)

 Acquisition of VOCABULARY is:

a building process that occurs over
time as students make connections
to other words, learn examples and
non-examples of the word and related
words, and use the words accurately
within the context of the sentence
(Snow, Griffin, & Burns, 2005).

Oral skills
According to Gumperz (1999), speaking is
cooperatively constructed which is based on
contributions, assumptions, expectations, and
interpretations of the participants utterances
(p. 101).
Since it is cooperative, it becomes a
negotiated, self-regulated process (Nunan,
1999, p. 226; Sayer, 2005, p. 17) that is
segmentally created through short, frequent
turns consisting of phrases and clauses
(Thornbury and Slade, 2006, p. 13).

FINDINGS

QUESTIONNAIRE

TEAM WORK
VOCABULARY
ORAL SKILLS
USE OF
TECHNOLOGY
TIME

 THANK YOU!
gema_h@yahoo.
com