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Discover effective strategies for teaching and reinforcing vocabulary. Learn how to present new words using visual images and gestures, help students remember with games and activities, and personalize learning. Explore online resources and tools for enhanced vocabulary instruction.
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How to Teach Vocabulary Sources: http://www.eslflow.com/vocabularylessonplans.html
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
Using visual images Other techniques Using gestures and actions Words in context Guessing/predicting Showing lexicial relations Step One: presenting new words
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
Sample 1- Guessing • Eiko is eating using hasami. It is made of wood or bamboo
Sample-2 Dody is not punctual. He often come to the class late
Other techniques • Using a dictionary • Explaining • Describing • Defining the context • Translating
Using memorizing games & activities Learning with friends Using review games Step Two: helping students remember new words
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
Vocabulary record system Personalizing the new words Step Three: making sure students make the new words their own
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 Listswith Games, Puzzles and Quizzes • LearnEnglishKids • An authoring tool: HOT POTATO • Example 1 • Example 2 • A Collocation Tool: iWiLL