this is a brief explanation of the points that this descriptive research will have.

1. The use of flashcards as a
strategy for teaching
vocabulary
Researcher’s name:
Sergio Roberto Witzil Chávez
Student’s registration number:
07-08887
Supervisor: Nature of Research: Descriptive
Gilberto Campos

2. Abstract
• The flashcards are seeing as a tool for many teachers but also as strategy for teaching. In this research
will be discussed about the strategies that a teacher commonly used in their class when they are
teaching vocabulary. The research has a descriptive approach because the main objective is to look the
frequency that a strategy is used for the teacher when he/she uses flashcards for teaching vocabulary to
preschool students so there will be analyzed some previous researches and beliefs or statements of
some authors ,specialized in teaching vocabulary, about the flashcards.
This research will be based in analyzed 10 teachers from three different private preschools
in Chetumal with a similar educational approach. The teachers have to answer a
questionnaire, which will help to select the 10, and a class of them, where they use
flashcards to teach vocabulary will be observed in order to get enough data with the aid of a
structured checklist. This data will be analyzed with the software SPSS in order to look the
frequency that a strategy is used, so these statistics will help to choose the strategies use
for teaching vocabulary using flashcards.

3. Objective
• The main objective of this research is
looking for the learning strategies that we
can apply when we used flashcards as a
strategy for teaching vocabulary to
children. So this research is based on the
identification of the strategies that are
used when we teach vocabulary with
flashcards.

4. Research questions
• RQ1 Are there specific strategies for using
flashcards?
• RQ2 what strategies for teaching work well with kids
when they teach vocabulary?
• RQ3 what strategies are more used for teachers
when they work with flashcards?
• This questions implies the doubts that this research
tries to clarify in order to use the best strategies when a
teacher tries to teach vocabulary with flashcards.

5. Relevance of the study
• At the ending of this research, the results can help teachers to choose the
strategies that they can use with kids when they will teach vocabulary with
flashcards so the result will help them as recommendations for the future
teachers that will start working with kids as students of a second language.
Teachers can see that a teaching material can become a good teaching
strategy such are the flashcards, a practical tool for teaching kids and any
student, regardless the age.

6. Literature review
1 how children learn a new
language
How they How
Beliefs learn vocabulary
vocabulary is taught

7. Literature review
2 Learning strategies
Direct Indirect
Definition
strategies strategies

8. Literature review
3 What are the flashcards?
Why use Using
Definition flashcards flashcards
with kids? with kids

9. Literature Review
4 Studies related with flashcards
Flashcard games as
a teaching aid to
Flashcards VS contrast the use
checklists between the simple
past and the present
perfect

10. Method
• This research is based on a descriptive approach where the objective is looking for
the strategies that teachers used to teach vocabulary to kids using flashcards.
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• This chapter describes the participants who will be selected to help in the collection of
data, the considerations that will be taken into account to allow them to participate in
this research, the instruments or ways of looking for this data how they were used
and their purpose of use them, and finally the procedure of collecting and analyzing
all the data obtained from these participants.

11. Participants
• The participants in this research will be 10 teachers selected from 3 private
preschools in Chetumal. These schools will be selected because of the
method they used in their class; in this case they have to use the
cooperative language learning which teaches kids in a collaborative
environment.
•
• The 10 teachers must have completed a questionnaire where they confirm
their general data. They have to be graduated of a bachelor in English
Language ,and also need to have at least 6 months of experience with kids
in order to participate in this research. On the other way, the gender of the
teacher will not be taken into account so the number of female teachers and
male teachers does not matter.
• Bernadette –Centro Escolar Escocia-
Cumbres

12. Intruments
• Questionnaires
• In this research the questionnaire will be used in order to identify the
strategies that a teacher uses when he/she is teaching vocabulary
with flashcards
• This questionnaire will be divided in three sections: the first one will
be focused in the frequency and the use of the strategies that
teachers apply when they use flashcards, the second one will be
about how effective the flashcards are for teaching vocabulary, and
the last one will be about personal information of the teacher.

13. Intruments
• Structured class observation
• The objective of using this instrument is to prove that teachers really
have or use the strategies that they affirmed they have in the
previous questionnaire and also to check what strategies work better
with their students so in short this instrument is for seeing the
effectiveness of the strategies applied with flashcards.
• This observation will be made in a structured check list where will
asses if a teacher use an specific strategy for the activity with the
flashcards, the frequency of these strategies and how the reaction of
student is with those strategies used during the exercise, I mean, if
the strategies really work well for teaching vocabulary.

14. Procedure
ask them to organize a do the class
specific activity where observation: using
Identify the preschools checklist
they use flashcards
Contact with the Select the teachers
Join the information
schools
Apply the
Contact with the Prepare the data for
teachers questionnaire being analyzed

15. Data analysis
Selection of the
strategies that are
Find out the
Put the data in the more used for a
Get the statistics frequencies of a
software SPSS teacher when he
strategy is used
use flashcards.