TEACHING VOCABULARY

Teacher Values Survey Answer True for false to these statements: 1) It is not important to explicitly teach vocabulary. Students will learn it in context. 2) I agree that vocabulary is important but I spend most of my time on grammar in class because it is more difficult for students. 3) Sure playing games is fun but they take too much time so I don´t use them. 4) Drilling is the best way to teach vocabulary. 5) Really knowing a word means knowing all its different kinds of meanings. 6) I agree that vocabulary and culture are connected but I am Mexican so ho can I be expected to the US/UK culture.

Pre-observation: Rodo´s Vocab List Here is an example of a vocabulary list that I found. My husband made it years ago while he was learning English. What do you think about it? Is this an affective way to learn vocabulary? Why or Why not? Teacher, live, year, bed, above, how far, restless, dog, old, garden What can we do to make this vocabulary more ¨learnable?¨

How are words organized in the brain? Semantic: Fruit or Synonyms/Antonmyms Phonological: chicken/kitchen and homophones:there, their, they´re Syntactic: parts of speach: chicken/kitchen Orthographical: sing, sign Morphological: Success, Succeed, Successful or Affixes Cultural: Pants Autobiographical: Casa de Acampar Cognates False cognates Lexical chunks: Phrasal verbs, collocations: I'll be in touch , compound words, Idioms Rigister Lexical set: Tree, bud, bark

How are words learned? Repetition Retieval Spacing Pacing Personal organizing Mnemonics Motivation Attention/arousal Context and use With a partner explain to the class and provide an example

Important distinctions: Active vs. Passive Denotation vs Important distinctions: Active vs. Passive Denotation vs. Connotation Form and meaning

Principles for Effective Vocabulary Instruction selecting words (focusing on a few words) introducing new words using and practicing words developing word learning strategies creating a vocabulary-rich environment collecting words recycling texts and vocabulary

Set priorities: 1. Select key vocabulary: Limit to 5-8 words that are central for comprehending the text, for organizing related words, and that are generally important themselves. 2. Select related vocabulary: words that can be related to key vocabulary and are useful for building linkages, checking comprehension, and creating extended activities.

What words should I choose to teach? Frequency Word families Content words Target audience Relevance Abstractness Key words Difficulty of the words Usefulness multiple meanings Metaphors Idioms

Where Does Our Garbage Go? San Francisco garbage collections are made every week. You put your garbage can full of trash out in front of your house on a certain day every week. The garbage collectors empty it into their garbage trucks. What happens to the garbage after that? The trucks take the garbage to a landfill. A landfill is a place where they bury garbage. They try to fix the landfill so the garbage won't leak out. The garbage is covered with earth. Most of San Francisco's garbage is sent to the Altamont Landfill. A landfill can only take a certain amount of garbage. After it is full, it can't take any more. If we send less garbage to the landfill, we will be able to use it longer.

Ideas for Teaching Vocabulary Introduce words in context Use semantic maps Provide explanations of words instead of their definition. Develop word learning strategies Connect vocabulary with grammar Use silly questions, songs and games Teach how different words are used (multiple meaning) Teach the function of a word using affixes Word families and parts-of-speech relations Cognate awareness Guessing vocabulary from context Recycling texts and vocabulary

A Few of Pearlie´s Personal Favorites! A million and 1 uses for blank papers Four Corners vocab Anki Definition: Synonym/ Antonym: Picture: Makes me think of:

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