How to Teach Vocabulary How to Teach Vocabulary (click to get the pdf file) How to Teach Vocabulary Alice Chiu 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

Step One: presenting new words Using visual imagesUsing gestures and actions Showing lexicial relations Words in context Guessing/predicting Other techniques

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

Step Two: helping students remember new words Using review games Using memorizing games & activities Learning with friends

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

Step Three: making sure students make the new words their own Vocabulary record system 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 L1 translation –putting the word into context –adding a synonym –mapping a word family –ExampleExample

personalize the new words Keeping a learning log (blogs) Keeping a diary (blogs) Creative writing by using newly- learned words or phrasesCreative writing Looking for recently learned words in storybooks, the Internet, the newspapers, etc., and noticing how they are used.

Meta-cognitively, learners learn how to 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 TechniquesTeaching Vocabulary: Two Dozen Tips and Techniques English Vocabulary Word Lists with Games, Puzzles and QuizzesEnglish Vocabulary Word Lists with Games, Puzzles and Quizzes LearnEnglishKids An authoring tool: HOT POTATOHOT POTATO –Example 1Example 1 –Example 2Example 2 A Collocation Tool: iWiLLiWiLL

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