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EAP Vocabulary: trial, error, enlightenment?. Marti Sevier English Bridge Program Simon Fraser University Vancouver, B.C. The English Bridge Program Selecting vocabulary Introducing vocabulary Recycling vocabulary & threading through Testing vocabulary Enlightenment through errors.
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EAP Vocabulary: trial, error, enlightenment? Marti Sevier English Bridge Program Simon Fraser University Vancouver, B.C.
The English Bridge Program Selecting vocabulary Introducing vocabulary Recycling vocabulary & threading through Testing vocabulary Enlightenment through errors EAP Vocabulary: trial, error, enlightenment?
The independent research project • AS: research the paper; produce annotated bibliography, in 2 drafts • AW: write the paper, in 3 drafts • ACC: power point presentation
IELTS Academic Skills Academic Culture & Communication AcademicWriting
The Problem of Selection & the Academic Word List • Former approach: let students select academic vocabulary to study via the AWL • New approach: • Instructor selection • Integration of vocabulary
Vocabulary program aims • Select academic vocabulary most relevant to course material and students’ needs • Develop tasks and practices to introduce, recycle and test vocabulary • Integrate vocabulary activities among 3 courses
Selection: the Web Vocabulary Profiler and Web Frequency Indexer
Tasks to introduce vocabulary--1 • Use them in written work for AS. (Highlight the words.) • Write them on cards. • Choose 3 or 4 and write a short story using them. • Highlight the words when you see them in your reading. • Try hard to remember their meaning. • Look up other forms of the word. • Memorize them for vocabulary quizzes.
Tasks to introduce vocabulary--2 Choose 5 words and write vocabulary questions and answers on a card, e.g. • What are 3 definitions of _____? • Give 3 word family members (and their parts of speech) of _______. • Where might you see a __________? (e.g. appendix) • True or False: If you (e.g. facilitate) a process, you slow it down. • What are 3 collocates of ( e.g. ethnic)? • Looking at the list, choose 3 words and show how they are related.
Tasks to introduce vocabulary—3 1.Try to learn words in groups. Which word or its family member might fit under the following IELTS topic headings? Look at the examples and add more words.
Tasks to introduce vocabulary—3 • Focus on collocation. Look up words on the concordancer, choosing “30 lines” and the University word list corpus. Click on Option 2, “Collocates table”, based on “frequency”. • Learn word family members. Using the concordancer, click Keywords “contains” to give you help. (Be careful, though!) tense, tension, tensed, Tennessee (X)
Tasks to introduce vocabulary—3 4. Make notes on what you find. Example:
Tasks to introduce vocabulary--4 For each word: • Find the main academic definitions and the common word family members and their parts of speech. • Use the word or a family member in a sentence related to your IRP topic OR an academic reading topic that we have covered on this course. Be sure to use collocation correctly. Example:
Recycling vocabulary in class • Oral summary / recounting tasks • Students teach students • Teacher talk, questions • GroupLex and quizzes • Lab tasks
Recycling vocabulary: a lab task • Choose 5 words from the Weeks 4 & 5 list. • Paste in 10 concordance lines for each word. Can you draw any conclusions about collocates for these 5 words? • Make notes.
Recycling vocabulary outside class • Highlight vocabulary in written work • Use the AWL Highlighter in research
Recycling vocabulary: the IELTS Interview--1 • Question and answer • The individual long turn: a topic related to the interviewee • Discussion: expansion of the topic to invite comparison, speculation, explanation
Recycling vocabulary: the IELTS Interview--4 Brainstorm some IELTS interview topics. Put the topic in the circle and add relevant vocabulary, in chunks where possible. Use the diagrams to practice the interview.
Testing Vocabulary--1 Vocabulary Quiz 2 Answer 15 of the following questions. You will be assessed for spelling at all times! 1. Give three word family members and parts of speech of the word defect. 2. Fill in the blank. They _______________ all their spare time to their children. 3. Write two different definitions of scenario. 4. True or False? Compute means to work something out. 5. What colour is carbon usually? 6. What are three collocations of ethnic? 7. Give threeword family members and their parts of speech of the word reside.
Testing Vocabulary--2 • Choose 10 vocabulary words from the list. Using correct word form, spelling, collocation and appropriate definition, write a sentence using one of the IELTS topic headings OR your IRP topic. You are encouraged to use as many different topic headings as you can. • Each sentence will be worth two marks based on the criteria above. You may use your notes but not a dictionary. Refer to the examples below.
Pre-test Motivation Integration Simplify: multiple choice? Enforcement strategies Plan more IELTS preparation tasks; link vocabulary more closely to readings Error repair: future plans
