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How to Teach Vocabulary

How to Teach Vocabulary. Sources: http://www.eslflow.com/vocabularylessonplans.html. Main menu. Teaching Tips: Step One : presenting new words Step Two : helping students remember new words Step Three : making sure students make the new words their own Online resources.

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How to Teach Vocabulary

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  1. How to Teach Vocabulary Sources: http://www.eslflow.com/vocabularylessonplans.html

  2. Main menu • Teaching Tips: • Step One: presenting new words • Step Two: helping students remember new words • Step Three: making sure students make the new words their own • Online resources

  3. Using visual images Other techniques Using gestures and actions Words in context Guessing/predicting Showing lexicial relations Step One: presenting new words

  4. using visual images • realia • pictures • masking • drawing • scales

  5. using gestures and actions • mime • gesture • facial expression • action

  6. showing lexical relations • synonyms • antonyms • collocation • prefixes and suffixes

  7. words in context • dialogues • role play • drama • stories • songs • rhymes & poems • videos

  8. guessing / predicting • Example 1 • Example 2

  9. Sample 1- Guessing • Eiko is eating using hasami. It is made of wood or bamboo

  10. Sample-2 Dody is not punctual. He often come to the class late

  11. Other techniques • Using a dictionary • Explaining • Describing • Defining the context • Translating

  12. Using memorizing games & activities Learning with friends Using review games Step Two: helping students remember new words

  13. usinge memorizing games and activities • giving directions • picture dictation • matching words • labeling words • searching words • sequencing words • guessing words • eliminating words • classifying words

  14. Review Games • wordsearch games • picture labeling • crosswords • Bingo • dominoes • puzzles • charts or survey for their peers • Example 1 • Example 2

  15. Socio-affectively,students can • practice words with a classmate or in a group • teach a word to a member of the family or peer • make and play word game with friends • peer test

  16. Vocabulary record system Personalizing the new words Step Three: making sure students make the new words their own

  17. Vocabulary record system-1 • Vocabulary books • in an alphabetical order • by topic or situation • by grammatical groups • by color sets • by story features

  18. Vocabulary record system -2 • personal dictionary (word notebooks) • marking word stress • adding pictures • putting an L1 translation • putting the word into context • adding a synonym • mapping a word family • Example

  19. personalize the new words • Keeping a learning log (blogs) • Keeping a diary (blogs) • Creative writing by using newly-learned words or phrases • Looking for recently learned words in storybooks, the Internet, the newspapers, etc., and noticing how they are used.

  20. Meta-cognitively, learners learn how to • self-test • look for patterns in words • plan and organize a vocabulary record keeping system • Learn words in their preferred ways • reflect on learning and reviewing regularly • monitor vocabulary learning

  21. Online Resources • Teaching Vocabulary:Two Dozen Tips and Techniques • English Vocabulary Word Listswith Games, Puzzles and Quizzes • LearnEnglishKids • An authoring tool: HOT POTATO • Example 1 • Example 2 • A Collocation Tool: iWiLL

  22. End of this session

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