Educational cartoons and vocabulary learning

Abstract

A cartoon is a simple, funny drawing of the things people see in everyday life, with lots of bright colors. They are usually printed in newspapers, comic books, or on television. However, cartoons are used as a teaching aid. The poor vocabulary development of the English language was the problem of this research. The main objective was to describe how Educational Cartoons enhance the English Vocabulary Learning of the sixth grade of basic education at the Escuela Particular Los Sauces which is composed of 27 students and 3 English teachers as the total population. A quantitative-qualitative approach (mixed approach) was carried out since it was necessary to investigate the subject, variables, and show the results that were found in the research. As a result, it was evident that the use of educational cartoons when teaching vocabulary allowed students to be more focused, attentive, and retain more of what was taught in class, thus increasing the number of words learned. It can be concluded that the use of educational cartoons as a strategy improved the students' vocabulary skills since the use of bright images and flashy sounds helped the students learn. On the other hand, it was shown that teachers did not use educational cartoons for vocabulary teaching