The use of communicative activities for teaching phrasal verbs

Abstract

Phrasal verbs are an important aspect and a challenge for learners of English as a foreign language (EFL). The aim of this proposal is to identify how the implementation of communicative language teaching activities may contribute to the learning of phrasal verbs in a tenth-grade course at a school in Bogota, Colombia. This project addressed the development and the implementation of communicative activities with a set of phrasal verbs with the particles "in", “away”, "down", "up", "off", "on", "over" and "out". This pedagogical intervention included activities such as board games, picture stories, storytelling and performance based on the communicative approach (CA). This inquiry attempted to recognize how the implemented activities allowed an alternative vocabulary learning environment from the communicative perspective.