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

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: 1 st 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?