S&C 🧩 Cooperative Jigsaw and Cooperative Card Activities in the Process of Improving Vocabulary Learning in English

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Cooperative Jigsaw and Cooperative Card activities are promising strategies for enhancing vocabulary retention and recall among English language learners. The Jigsaw strategy involves students becoming “experts” on specific vocabulary words or phrases, allowing them to master meanings before teaching these terms to peers, which reinforces their understanding and fosters a sense of community and interdependence. Cooperative Card activities further support vocabulary acquisition by encouraging collaboration and strengthening communication skills as students work together to match words with definitions or use them in sentences. This workshop will guide participants through developing two cooperative activities based on jigsaw and cooperative vocabulary cards which can help in promoting recall of the vocabulary. Moreover, in this workshop, we will develop a last activity to promote retention to show that those activities could help students to store the vocabulary in long-term memory.

Angie Nayive Benavides Martínez graduated with a bachelor’s degree in humanity English and Spanish Language at the University of Nariño in 2019, and she is a student in the last semester of a master’s degree in teaching English and Spanish Language as a foreign language at the Nariño University. For one year, she taught English academics in Orito Putumayo. Then, She was an English teacher at Champagnat High School in Ipiales Nariño for 4 years, and currently, she is an English teacher at Bethlemites School Pasto. She is finishing her master’s degree in teaching English and Spanish as a foreign language. She was a presenter at the V International Conference on Professional Development: Factors Affecting Language Teaching and Learning Pasto, September 25 – 27, 2024.

Claudia Lorena Botina Botina graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English and Spanish Language at the University of Nariño, and she is a student in the last semester of a master’s degree in teaching English and Spanish Language as a foreign language at the Nariño University. She has also worked for two years at San Francisco Javier School in Pasto City.