USING STUDYMATE TO TEACH, PRACTICE & TEST VOCABULARY

USING STUDYMATE TO TEACH, PRACTICE & TEST VOCABULARY ABU DHABI MEN’S COLLEGE SEMESTER ONE TOM JOHNSON –GEN. ED. FACULTY ADMC tjohnson@hct.ac.ae

USING STUDYMATE TO TEACH, PRACTICE & TEST VOCABULARY • NOT COMPREHENSIVE – JUST THE FEATURES I’VE USED • CREATE FLASH ACTIVITIES: LAPTOPS & PHONES • BBV VISTA • STUDYMATE.COM • SEPARATE WEBSITE

USING STUDYMATE TO TEACH, PRACTICE & TEST VOCABULARY • Select ‘TERM/DEFINITION’ OPTION • Five activities & glossary simultaneously created: • Flash cards • Type the word • Fill the gap • Matching • Glossary

USING STUDYMATE TO TEACH, PRACTICE & TEST VOCABULARY • Select ‘MULTIPLE CHOICE’ OPTION • QUIZ and CHALLENGE options created simultaneously: • Standard multiple choice • Challenge – same as Jeopardy team game • 5 question categories & levels of difficulty • 25 question items needed for Challenge

USING STUDYMATE TO TEACH, PRACTICE & TEST VOCABULARY • 5 POSSIBLE CATEGORIES FOR CHALLENGE • GRAMMATICAL FORM • MEANING • NUMBER OF SYLLABLES • WORD STRESS • SPELLING

USING STUDYMATE TO TEACH, PRACTICE & TEST VOCABULARY • CHALLENGE QUIZ GRADING CRITERIA • Word Frequencies: • 1st 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 most common words in English • Based on Longman Corpus Network: Compare ‘door’ and ‘baguette’, ‘big’ and ‘enormous’

USING STUDYMATE TO TEACH, PRACTICE & TEST VOCABULARY • Lexical complexity: • Compare: ‘month’ with ‘accommodation’, ‘price’ with ‘psychology’ • Question Difficulty: Compare: • How many syllables does 'foreign' have? • Which word below has the same number of syllables as 'secretary'?

USING STUDYMATE TO TEACH, PRACTICE & TEST VOCABULARY • THE FUTURE • Website based on, but not limited to ‘Oxford Word Skills – Basic’ • Website very big project – just started [URL in handout] • ‘Oxford Word Skills – Intermediate’ Online exercises will be developed by another teacher • ANY QUESTIONS?

USING STUDYMATE TO TEACH, PRACTICE & TEST VOCABULARY