The way vocabulary affects oral participation in a universal history class in an efl private junior high school

“This research is focused to discover the factors that impede the oral participation of six students in Middle School in the city of Puebla in their bilingual classes. This research contains a relevant topic that has to be studied because learning vocabulary is not as easy as it seems because there are difficult structures that non-native speakers face when they a language, in this case English as a foreign language. Vocabulary learning is an essential part in foreign language learning as the meanings of new words are very often emphasized, whether in books or in classrooms. It is also central to language teaching and is of paramount importance to a language learner. Recent researches indicate that teaching vocabulary may be problematic because many teachers are not confident about best practice in vocabulary teaching and at times don’t know where to begin to form an instructional emphasis on word learning. Learning vocabulary goes beyond just memorizing the words with the meanings because one Word can have different meanings (French, 1983) which are not clearly related to the word.