RT journal article T1 La expresión cinematográfica “muda” en el aula de español: estrategia didáctica para aprender léxico T2 The expression of silent cinema in the Spanish classroom: a teaching strategy for learning vocabulary A1 Úcar Ventura, Pilar K1 léxico K1 cortometraje K1 síntesis K1 lexicon K1 short film K1 synthesis K1 idiomatic registers K1 léxico K1 curta-metragem K1 síntese K1 registros idiomáticos AB The purpose is to analyse the possibilities of projecting a short silent film withoutwords in the Spanish classroom as a teaching resource for learning vocabulary in differentlanguage registers. It has been found that at some levels of linguistic competence there is acertain stagnation in the progress of acquiring new terminology. A teaching sequence with ‘shortfilm stories’ is proposed. To this end, the advantages of contextualising images without wordsare analysed, thus favouring the deep structure that underlies verbal silences; activities relatedto verbal and non-verbal language are described: searching for synonyms in order to avoid therepetition of adverbs and deictic demonstratives, and the most common verbs that impoverishoral and written expression, such as: ‘tener’, ‘dar’, ‘hacer’, ‘poner’, decir and, above all, the verb‘ser’. The list of exercises that can be carried out in the classroom activates synthesis, which isnecessary for the practice of linguistic messages in the different forms of discourse that will beneeded in subsequent levels. PB Editorial UCA SN 2792-9035 YR 2025 FD 2025-12 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/39867 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/39867 LA spa DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz RD 07-nov-2026