How to teach vocabulary
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The document outlines a three step process for teaching vocabulary: 1) Presenting new words using visuals, gestures, context, and other techniques like dictionaries. 2) Helping students remember words through review games, memorization games with classmates, and socio-affective activities. 3) Ensuring students make words their own through personalized vocabulary records, creative writing using new words, and finding words in other materials.
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How to teach vocabulary
- 1. How to Teach Vocabulary Alice Chiu English Teacher
- 2. 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
- 3. Step One: presenting new words Using visual images Using gestures and actions Showing lexicial relations Words in context Guessing/predicting Other techniques
- 4. using visual images realia pictures masking drawing scales
- 5. using gestures and actions mime gesture facial expression action
- 6. showing lexical relations synonyms antonyms collocation prefixes and suffixes
- 7. words in context dialogues role play drama stories songs rhymes & poems videos
- 8. Other techniques Using a dictionary Explaining Describing Defining the context Translating
- 9. Step Two: helping students remember new words Using review games Using memorizing games & activities Learning with friends
- 10. usinge memorizing games and activities giving directions picture dictation labeling words searching words sequencing words guessing words eliminating words classifying words Matching words
- 11. Review Games Word search games picture labeling Bingo dominoes puzzles charts or survey for their peers crosswords
- 12. 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
- 13. Step Three: making sure students make the new words their own Vocabulary record system Personalizing the new words
- 14. Vocabulary record system-1 Vocabulary books in an alphabetical order by topic or situation by grammatical groups by color sets by story features
- 15. 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
- 16. 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.
- 17. 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
- 18. Online Resources Teaching Vocabulary:Two Dozen Tips and Techniques English Vocabulary Word Lists with Games, Puzzles and Quizzes LearnEnglishKids
- 19. End