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Effective Vocabulary Teaching Methods: Engaging Strategies & Techniques

Learn different techniques for presenting and teaching vocabulary, explore vocabulary use aspects, and strategies to work out unknown words. Discover when and how to conduct vocabulary instruction and the selection criteria for effective vocabulary development. Improve your teaching with various practices and activities.

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Effective Vocabulary Teaching Methods: Engaging Strategies & Techniques

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  1. English Language teaching Methodology英语教学法 Unit 8 Focus on Vocabulary 主讲：刘玉库 E-mail: liuyuku@sian.com

  2. Unit 8 Focus on Vocabulary • Objectives:*understand what learning vocabulary actually means*explore all the aspects of vocabulary use *use different techniques for presenting vocabulary*Teach your students various strategies for working out the meaning of unknown words*examine different techniques for teaching the aspects of vocabulary use

  3. I. Vocabulary instruction: where should it go? • 1. It can be conducted before listening, speaking or reading; • 2. It can be conducted after listening, speaking or reading; • 3. It can be conducted in the course of listening, speaking or reading; • 4. It can be isolated.

  4. II.The content of vocabulary instruction • 1. meaning: • 2. word use: • 3. word information • 4. word grammar: • 5. vocabulary learning strategies

  5. III. The selection of vocabulary • 1. frequency: select words with high frequency • 2. coverage: select words with wide coverage • 3. topic: select words central to the topic • 4. teachability: select words that are teachable • 5. strategy: select words that are relevant to the strategies that you are to train.

  6. IV. Vocabulary development: Second language acquisition and memory • 1. Findings and suggestions by Johnson • 2. Findings and suggestions by Chamell • 3. Stevic • 4. How do people memorize vocabulary

  7. 4. How do people memorize vocabulary 1) The use of context 2) The use of prefix and suffixes 3) The use of image 4) Classification or grouping 5) Translation 6) Mnemonic devices 7) Loci 8) Word families

  8. V. Teaching of vocabulary • 1. presentation 1) What to present 2) techniques to apply

  9. V. Teaching of vocabulary • 2.More techniques 1 ) word-web 2 ) information-gap 3 )vocabulary discovery 4 )vocabulary questions

  10. V. Teaching of vocabulary • 3. practice 1) objective 2) Sample activities 3) vocabulary story 4) chain story 5) Perform the past 6) Cross association 7) Decorate the house

  11. The End

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