The teaching-learning process is contextualized, flexible and adapted to the educational needs of the young learner

Resumen

The objective of the following bibliographic research was to explain how the teaching-learning process is contextualized, flexible and adapted to the educational needs of the young learner students, and to demonstrate the impact of the Mime Game as a learning technique of the communicative approach in the students’ vocabulary acquisition. The units of analysis were 20 research articles carried out different countries, where the English language is taught as a foreign language. The method applied was the hermeneutic method which allowed the pre-service teachers to understand, analyze and interpret the effect of communicative activities (mime game) on the teaching-learning process of young learners. Thus, an annotated bibliography matrix was made as a data collection instrument, which included themes, authors, year, countries, objectives, research designs and main findings. The results showed that the application of the Communicative approach provides meaningful activities for students to use the language. Specially, for learning vocabulary, association and gestures activities are recommended for young learners, so they might learn easier and less stressful, particularly, mime game is suggested, as it enhances students to take risks, make mistakes, work as a team and keep improving within less threatening situations.