How to Teach Vocabulary (click to get the pdf file) Alice Chiu 0936-825423 English Teacher
Main menu Teaching Tips: Online resources 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 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
Step Two: helping students remember new words Using memorizing games & activities Step Two: helping students remember new words Using review games 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 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 L1 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 newly-learned 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 LearnEnglishKids An authoring tool: HOT POTATO Example 1 Example 2 A Collocation Tool: iWiLL
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