How to Teach Vocabulary click to get the
How to Teach Vocabulary (click to get the pdf file) Alice Chiu 0936 -825423 English Teacher
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
Using visual images Other techniques Using gestures and actions Step One: presenting new words Words in context Guessing/predicting Showing lexicial relations
using visual images • • • realia pictures masking drawing scales
using gestures and actions • • mime gesture facial expression action
showing lexical relations • • synonyms antonyms collocation prefixes and suffixes
words in context • • dialogues role play drama stories songs rhymes & poems videos
guessing / predicting • Example 1 • Example 2
Other techniques • • • Using a dictionary Explaining Describing Defining the context Translating
Using memorizing games & activities Step Two: helping students remember new words Learning with friends Using review games
usinge memorizing games and activities • • • giving directions picture dictation matching words labeling words searching words sequencing words guessing words eliminating words classifying words
Review Games • • • wordsearch games picture labeling crosswords Bingo dominoes puzzles charts or survey for their peers Example 1 Example 2
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
Vocabulary record system Step Three: making sure students make the new words their own Personalizing the new words
Vocabulary record system-1 • Vocabulary books – in an alphabetical order – by topic or situation – by grammatical groups – by color sets – by story features
Vocabulary record system -2 • personal dictionary (word notebooks) – marking word stress – adding pictures – putting an L 1 translation – putting the word into context – adding a synonym – mapping a word family – Example
personalize the new words • Keeping a learning log (blogs) • Keeping a diary (blogs) • Creative writing by using newlylearned words or phrases • Looking for recently learned words in storybooks, the Internet, the newspapers, etc. , and noticing how they are used.
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
Online Resources • Teaching Vocabulary: Two Dozen Tips and Techniques • English Vocabulary Word Lists with Games, Puzzles and Quizzes • Learn. English. Kids • An authoring tool: HOT POTATO – Example 1 – Example 2 • A Collocation Tool: i. Wi. LL
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