ENHANCING STUDENTS' TECHNICAL VOCABULARY THROUGH "MEMRISE"

Enhancing Students’ Technical or Specialized

Vocabulary through “Memrise”

Presented By:

Dian Fadhilawati,M.Pd.(ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY OF

BALITAR)

CONFERENCE ON ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING22-23 FEBRUARY 2014 PHNOM PHEN CAMBODIA

10th

Annual

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VOCABULARY TEARSVOCABULARY TEARS

Mule, breeding, breeder, cultivarLabrador, hybrid, Taxon

Harvest, crop, plant,

Farmer, go, farm,

Low frequencyLow frequency

TechnicalTechnical

GeneralGeneral

Vocabulary (Nation:2001)

Vocabulary (Nation:2001)

AcademicAcademic

11

22

33

44

General Vocabulary

General Vocabulary

the 2000 most frequent words of English

• provide 80% coverage of most texts

arrive, discuss, follower, impossible,

leader, message, repeat, story

attribute, category, environment, function,

internal, monitor, perspective, widespread

a list of 570 frequently occurring words in academic texts

provides approximately 8-12% coverage of academic texts

Academic Vocabulary

1

2

words that occur with very high or moderate frequency level within a limited range of texts

provides 5% coverage of most texts

words that occur with very high or moderate frequency level within a limited range of texts

provides 5% coverage of most textsaudit, capital, distribution, metrics, principal agent, shareholder, supply

Technical Vocabulary

Low Frequency Vocabularywords at the 2,000 - 20,000 frequency level

and beyondprovides 5% coverage of most texts

abject, credentials, genealogy,geomorphic, incarcerate, palpitate,

rupture

4

3

Bolded Bolded

Technical /specialized Vocabulary

Technical /specialized Vocabulary

Specific Field

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How to Teach Vocabulary

How to Teach Vocabulary

Adapted from Building Academic Vocabulary by Robert Marzano and Debra Pickering, 2005

Step 4: Engage students periodically in activities that help them add to their knowledge of the terms in their notebooks.

Step 5: Periodically ask students to discuss the terms with one another.Step 6: Involve students periodically in games that allow them to play with terms.

Step 1: Provide a description, explanation, or example of the new term.

Step 2: Ask students to restate the description, explanation, or example in their own words.

Step 3: Ask students to construct a picture, symbol, or graphic representing the term or phrase

PRE ACTIONPRE ACTION

STUDENTS

Mean Score OF Vocabulary test: 62.28 les than the criterion of succes 75.00

Unmotivated

Passive

.

2010

sciencescience

SCIENCE

FUNFUN

COMMUNITY

MEMRISEMEMRISE

community

Level 1Agriculture/Farmer/farm/Breeding/irrigation/Climate/

Air/soil/Mineral/Pesticide/Fertile/Fertilizer/Rice

Vocabulary of Agriculture and Farming

Vocabulary of Agriculture and Farming

Plant Breading/Animal Breading/Selective Breading/Inbreeding/Breeder/Crossbreed/Hybrid/Mule/Maize/Extinction/Taxon/Species/Outcross/ Labradoodle/Cultivar

Polyculture/Monoculture/Multiple Cropping/Intercropping/Aquaponics/Suistanable Agriculture/Crop Rotation/Organic Agriculture/Permaculture/

Green Manure/Compost/Raw Material/Pastoral Farming

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Level 2

Level 3

WHO,WHEN,WHERE,HOWWHO,WHEN,WHERE,HOW

31 students of Agriculture and Farming in

the second semester (2012/2013)

METHODClassroom

Action Research

e

Learn effectively Enjoy your mindPlay with others

Reminder timed Adaptive Testing

Lots more science

Earn points Compete with

friend

Designed for funTaps inner genius

Why We Use Memrise

Motivated to learn

Technical Vocabulary

Learning Motivation

Questionnaire ResultQuestionnaire Result

29(93%)

2(7%)

0 0 0

29(94%)

2(6%)

0 0 0

0 0 1(3%)

2(7%)

28

(90%)

0 0 0 2(7%)

29

(93%)

Learning Technical vocabulary using Memrise

ANAANAAAAA AA NANA

SNSNItems Number

make me Motivated to learn

More interesting

Difficult to learn

Boring and wasting

time

Easy to learn

words and promote

self confidence

Learning Result

Questionnaire ResultQuestionnaire Result

27 4 0 0 0

28 3 0 0 0

28 2 1 0 0

29 2 0 0 0

Learning Technical vocabulary using Memrise

ANAANAAAAA AA NANA

SNSNQuestions

Adding Vocabulary

Learning vocabulary

easily

Meaningful vocabulary

learning

Having self confidence

Accomplish the vocabulary

task

Task Accomplishment

Questionnaire ResultQuestionnaire Result

27(87%)

4(13%)

0 0 0

Learning Technical vocabulary using Memrise

ANAANAAAAA AA NANA

SNSNItems Number

Iam motivated to do my

vocabulary tasks after

learning vocabulary

with Memrise

Promote social

relationship

SociallRelationship

Questionnaire ResultQuestionnaire Result

28(90%)

3(10%)

0 0 0

Learning Technical vocabulary using Memrise

ANAANAAAAA AA NANA

SNSN

Items Number

(9)

Learning vocabulary

through “memrise” increases friendship with my friends

84.40

WORD LIST

60.28

STRATEGIESSTRATEGIES

MEAN SCOREMEAN SCORE

MEMRISE

BeforeBefore AfterAfter

THE STUDENTS VOCABULARY ACHIEVEMENT

THE STUDENTS VOCABULARY ACHIEVEMENT

Reflecting

Implementing

Observing

M= 75…?

CLASSROOM ACTION RESEARCH CLASSROOM ACTION RESEARCH PROCEDUREPROCEDURE

CLASSROOM ACTION RESEARCH CLASSROOM ACTION RESEARCH PROCEDUREPROCEDURE

Planning

ReferencesReferences

Beck, I.L., McKeown, M.G. & Kucan, L. (2002). Bringing Words to Life: Robust Vocabulary Instruction. New

York: The Guilford Press.Chall, J.S. (1996). American reading achievement:

Should we worry? Research in the Teaching of English, 30, 303-310.

Graves, M.F., editor. Essential Readings on Vocabulary Instruction. International Reading Association 2009.

Marzano, R.J., & Pickering, D.L. (2005) Building Academic Vocabulary: Teacher's Manual. Alexandria,

VA: ASCD. "Common Core State Standards Initiative." National

Governor's Association Center for Best Practices, Council of Chief State School Officers, 2010. Web. 12 Jun

2012.

1. Enhance the students’ Technical Vocabulary achievement

2.Alternative tool in teaching learning

CONCLUSIONCONCLUSION

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