Educaplay and Podcasts to reinforce vocabulary in English
Listening, speaking, reading, and writing are the basis of language. But, in addition to these abilities, there are three additional aspects to be sharpened in language: vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar, Agazzi (2022).
LAW IN ACTION
Methodology
gamification, webquests, and podcasting
Seymour, Jessica. 2018.
WHY ICTs?
‘“The adoption and integration of ICTs into the teaching and learning environment offers more opportunities for teachers and students to work better in a globalized digital age.’
-Lawrence and Tar (2018).
Methodology
The university is located in Xalapa city in Veracruz State. Law students in the institution are prepared to face real life situations, deal with criminal/civil cases, help individuals, groups, and organizations. All of this, led by a group of professional Law Department instructors who teach.
Context The institution specializes in law, pedagogy, public accountancy, business administration. The institution is an extension from the Secretaría de Educación de Veracruz (SEV) and the UNAM Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México(UNAM). Therefore, it belongs to a National Program in the Educative System in Mexico. An approximate number of 2,080 students registered in 2020 with the following numbers: With a tuition around (536) in law, public accountancy (532), degree in pedagogy (458) and business (432).
Research Questions
In order to achieve the objectives, the questions guiding the present study are the following: What is the impact of using Educaplay and Law Podcasts to reinforce vocabulary inference skill with law students? What are the students’ perceptions towards the use and implementation of Educaplay and Law Podcasts for learning law-related words?
Participants
Students attended to an average time of a two hours class per session (twice a week) during their current semester (4th). During this course, it is expected that students can handle and understand the necessary compendium of words that are useful for them to read, analyze and infer the meaning of technical vocabulary in legal texts with the constant practice of a set of activities provided and designed from the educational platform Educaplay.
Participants
The participants of the research were 20 university students, 14 women and 6 men,
20 university students14 women and 6 men Intermediate English course as an extra- curricular subject. Four-hours English course per week, for the full academic year (4 months each period). Twenty-one and twenty-five years 4th semester in the Law BA Degree at this private college.
Literature Review
From numbers 1 to 5 the meaning for each response was explained in the instructions of the questionnaire as the following:
Strongly agree
Agree
Neither agree nor disagree
Disagree
Strongly disagree
Pre-eliminary Tests
Vocabulary Assessment in Cambridge English Exams
A B
Student A’s result shows the student only had 12 correct answers ( highlighted in blue) and 16 wrong answers (highlighted in red color). Student B’s result shows the student had 12 blue correspondences as well but with different words, and 16 incorrect answers from the 28 terms highlighted in yellow (the list of words selected).
(The model was taken as a guideline to test if the association between vocabulary and inference had any variation and for further selection of podcasts and terms that were going to be included in the following activities in the educational platform Educaplay.
Educational Platform
Educational Platform
Educaplay is a digital platform that allows teachers and students to work with a group of diverse educational activities online. Possible types of activities are listed below:
Crossword puzzle
Fill in the blanks game
Word search puzzle
Memory game
Dictation game
Matching columns game
Video Quiz
Administrative Law
Newest Terms
Froggy Jumps
Most Challenging Terms
Most Challenging Terms
Conclusions
Outcomes: As students were practicing with the multiple task platform, they felt even more motivated to be actively participating in class. As they felt more secure and according to the twenty interviews in Spanish, students felt vocabulary retention as a positive change in vocabulary learning, a better understanding of new legal terms and ability to infer new words in a legal context. Drawbacks: Two out of the twenty students expressed negative emotions due the lack of time to complete the activities as they felt under pressure as they did not know how to complete some of the tasks. They considered the instructions in the platform were not clear enough, which made students felt nervous and desperate with three activities as they commented on the interviews, the activities they could not catch quite well were: dictation game, riddle and the roulette of words. Students expressed discontent due to the difficulty of the tasks and so little time to solve the activities.
Preferences: Students who could not get the instructions within the Educaplay platform stated a predilection for the app called “Duolingo” as they considered this app easier to handle. Nevertheless, they quickly recognize how those activities from Duolingo were easier compared to the ones in Educaplay, which represented a higher English level.
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Educaplay and Podcasts to reinforce vocabulary in English
Listening, speaking, reading, and writing are the basis of language. But, in addition to these abilities, there are three additional aspects to be sharpened in language: vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar, Agazzi (2022).
LAW IN ACTION
Methodology
gamification, webquests, and podcasting
Seymour, Jessica. 2018.
WHY ICTs?
‘“The adoption and integration of ICTs into the teaching and learning environment offers more opportunities for teachers and students to work better in a globalized digital age.’
-Lawrence and Tar (2018).
Methodology
The university is located in Xalapa city in Veracruz State. Law students in the institution are prepared to face real life situations, deal with criminal/civil cases, help individuals, groups, and organizations. All of this, led by a group of professional Law Department instructors who teach.
Context The institution specializes in law, pedagogy, public accountancy, business administration. The institution is an extension from the Secretaría de Educación de Veracruz (SEV) and the UNAM Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México(UNAM). Therefore, it belongs to a National Program in the Educative System in Mexico. An approximate number of 2,080 students registered in 2020 with the following numbers: With a tuition around (536) in law, public accountancy (532), degree in pedagogy (458) and business (432).
Research Questions
In order to achieve the objectives, the questions guiding the present study are the following: What is the impact of using Educaplay and Law Podcasts to reinforce vocabulary inference skill with law students? What are the students’ perceptions towards the use and implementation of Educaplay and Law Podcasts for learning law-related words?
Participants
Students attended to an average time of a two hours class per session (twice a week) during their current semester (4th). During this course, it is expected that students can handle and understand the necessary compendium of words that are useful for them to read, analyze and infer the meaning of technical vocabulary in legal texts with the constant practice of a set of activities provided and designed from the educational platform Educaplay. Participants The participants of the research were 20 university students, 14 women and 6 men,
20 university students14 women and 6 men Intermediate English course as an extra- curricular subject. Four-hours English course per week, for the full academic year (4 months each period). Twenty-one and twenty-five years 4th semester in the Law BA Degree at this private college.
Literature Review
From numbers 1 to 5 the meaning for each response was explained in the instructions of the questionnaire as the following: Strongly agree Agree Neither agree nor disagree Disagree Strongly disagree
Pre-eliminary Tests
Vocabulary Assessment in Cambridge English Exams
A B
Student A’s result shows the student only had 12 correct answers ( highlighted in blue) and 16 wrong answers (highlighted in red color). Student B’s result shows the student had 12 blue correspondences as well but with different words, and 16 incorrect answers from the 28 terms highlighted in yellow (the list of words selected). (The model was taken as a guideline to test if the association between vocabulary and inference had any variation and for further selection of podcasts and terms that were going to be included in the following activities in the educational platform Educaplay.
Educational Platform
Educational Platform
Educaplay is a digital platform that allows teachers and students to work with a group of diverse educational activities online. Possible types of activities are listed below: Crossword puzzle Fill in the blanks game Word search puzzle Memory game Dictation game Matching columns game Video Quiz
Administrative Law
Newest Terms
Froggy Jumps
Most Challenging Terms
Most Challenging Terms
Conclusions
Outcomes: As students were practicing with the multiple task platform, they felt even more motivated to be actively participating in class. As they felt more secure and according to the twenty interviews in Spanish, students felt vocabulary retention as a positive change in vocabulary learning, a better understanding of new legal terms and ability to infer new words in a legal context. Drawbacks: Two out of the twenty students expressed negative emotions due the lack of time to complete the activities as they felt under pressure as they did not know how to complete some of the tasks. They considered the instructions in the platform were not clear enough, which made students felt nervous and desperate with three activities as they commented on the interviews, the activities they could not catch quite well were: dictation game, riddle and the roulette of words. Students expressed discontent due to the difficulty of the tasks and so little time to solve the activities.
Preferences: Students who could not get the instructions within the Educaplay platform stated a predilection for the app called “Duolingo” as they considered this app easier to handle. Nevertheless, they quickly recognize how those activities from Duolingo were easier compared to the ones in Educaplay, which represented a higher English level.