Gene Ouellette
What's meaning got to do with it: The role of vocabulary in word reading and reading comprehension.
skill reading plays important role process learning foreign language whether learners children adults well known good readers perform better language learning skills anderson 2003however little attention paid use vocabulary teaching complemented technological tools like online animated stories promote development childrens reading abilitiesthe present qualitative action research project based completion vocabulary prereading activities a1 l2 third graders comprehension short online animated storiesreading tests format truefalse multiple choice question used assess activities done affected level reading comprehension animated storiesinterviews conducted students questionnaires administered parents gather data perceptions use multimodal technologiesthe data collected analyzed principles grounded theory approach results obtained showed performance children literal reading comprehension improved also positive perception use multimodal technologies learn englishthis lent support notion students vocabulary activities complemented use multimodal technologies effective approach develop skills reading comprehensiontherefore reasoned approach widely adopted efl educational community context elementary education colombia