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Vocabulary Skills for IELP Tutors. Barbara A. Pijan = Dec-2011. IELP Vocabulary. Key to Success for University Reading. IELP Vocabulary. Why? Which words? What tools? How can Tutors help ?. 1. Why?. Reading = the key to university success. vocabulary = the key to reading.
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Vocabulary Skills for IELP Tutors Barbara A. Pijan = Dec-2011 Vocabulary for IELP Tutors
IELP Vocabulary Key to Success for University Reading Vocabulary for IELP Tutors
IELP Vocabulary • Why? • Which words? • What tools? • How canTutorshelp? Vocabulary for IELP Tutors
1. Why? Reading = the key to university success. vocabulary= the key to reading. Vocabulary for IELP Tutors Dec-2011
1. Why? To understand a Reading Passage: Comprehension = Minimum 90-95% KNOWN words 90 -95% Vocabulary for IELP Tutors
1. Why? Target Comprehension = • 95%of the running wordsin an average text Vocabulary for IELP Tutors
2. What Words? The Lexicon Vocabulary for IELP Tutors 7
2. What Words? • Webster’s 3rd Intl • 114,000 word families • Printed school English • 88,000 word families • To read without interruption from unknown vocabulary • 17-20,000 word families = ** college fluency ** Receptive Vocab Vocabulary for IELP Tutors
2. What Words? Native Speaker youth add +/- 1,000 new word families each year (until they leave school) • The average US kindergartener knows: 6000 word families • Educated NS know: 20,000word families Vocabulary for IELP Tutors
Chinese Vocabulary For comparison: • Basic vocab 520 characters [Chinese 101-103] • Written proficiency begins 1500 characters [Chinese 301-303] • Full literacy = 3500+ char • Masters degree = 7000 char • Total characters = 11,000 • Total words = approx 84,000 Data from www.pdx.edu/wll/courses-chinese + en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language
2. What Words? Academic Word List • 570 “university” headwords General Service List • 2248 most common “normal” words Vocabulary for IELP Tutors
2. What Words? + AWL + GSL 90+% text = known If Ss learn 2000 GSLonly • then 1 of 5 words will be unknown If Ssadd 570 AWL • then approx1 of 10 words will be unknown Vocabulary for IELP Tutors
2. What Words? Vocabulary for IELP Tutors
2. What Words? Ave. 400 words per page http://www.victoria.ac.nz/lals/resources/academicwordlist/thesublists.aspx Vocabulary for IELP Tutors
3. Which tools? Tools and Skills: • Translating • Dictionaries • Encounters! • Word-lists • Graded readers • Constant Testing Paul Nation IELP Vocabulary for IELP Tutors
3. Which tools? • Collocations • Corpus-based Dictionaries • Frequency • Register Student’s word knowledge: Vocabulary for IELP Tutors
4. Tutor Help? • List-study = OK • Tutor’s talk = role-modeling • But… • Context-guessing = doesn’t work! Vocabulary for IELP Tutors Dec-2011
4. Tutor’s Help? Context Guess ? • No, not unless 95% = known! Study List ? • Yes= by collocation • Yes = by morphology (AWL) • No = by semantic group Casual talking ? • No, must Read for University Register Which methods work? Vocabulary for IELP Tutors
4. Tutor’s Help? Students should use: • Study Lists + frequent Quiz • Margin notes • Translations • Multiple Encounters • Learner Dictionaries • Internet self-study Vocabulary for IELP Tutors Dec-2011
4. Tutor’s Help? • Dictionary Skills • ESSENTIAL • in Constant Use while the 2000 + 570 are being learned • Collocations • Learner Dictionaries required • Need Frequency rank Dec-2011 Vocabulary for IELP Tutors
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References Bauman, J. (1995). General service list. http://jbauman.com/aboutgsl.html Coxhead, A. (2000). A new academic word list. TESOL Quarterly, 34, 213-238. Folse, K. (2004). Vocabulary myths: applying second language research to classroom teaching. Univ. of Michigan Press. Nation, I.S.P. (2001). Learning vocabulary in another language. Cambridge Univ. Press. Nation, I.S.P. [consultant] (2010). Real reading. Longman Publishers. Zimmerman, C. (2008). Word knowledge: a vocabulary teachers handbook. Oxford Univ. Press. Barbara Anne Pijan Vocabulary for IELP Tutors