3. Central role in L2 Acquisition

4.  What do you as educators believe to be the best way to teach vocabulary?  Should it be taught explicitly or implicitly?  Should it be taught at the same time?

5.  Potential problems of implicit instruction; › Guessing words in context › Inferring word meaning › Using flexible reading strategies

6.  Potential problems of implicit instruction; › Guessing from context › Emphasis on inference skills

7. So, should implicit vocabulary instruction be taught separately?

8.  Pedagogical themes: › 1. Build a large sight vocabulary › 2. Integrate new words with old words › 3. Provide a number of encounters with the word

9. BUILD A LARGE SIGHT VOCABULARY

10. INTEGRATE NEW WORDS WITH OLD WORDS

11. PROVIDE A NUMBER OF ENCOUNTERS WITH A WORD

12. Overall Personal Evaluation