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EAP Vocabulary: EAP Vocabulary: trial, error, enlightenment?trial, error, enlightenment?

Marti SevierMarti Sevier

English Bridge ProgramEnglish Bridge Program

Simon Fraser UniversitySimon Fraser University

Vancouver, B.CVancouver, B.C. .

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EAP Vocabulary: EAP Vocabulary: trial, error, enlightenment?trial, error, enlightenment?

• The English Bridge Program

• Selecting vocabulary

• Introducing vocabulary

• Recycling vocabulary & threading through

• Testing vocabulary

• Enlightenment through errors

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The English Bridge ProgramThe English Bridge Program

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The English Bridge ProgramThe English Bridge Program

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The independent research projectThe independent research project

• AS: research the paper; produce annotated bibliography, in 2 drafts

• AW: write the paper, in 3 drafts

• ACC: power point presentation

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IELTSIELTS

Academic Culture & Communication

AcademicWriting

Academic Skills

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The Problem of Selection The Problem of Selection & the Academic Word List& the Academic Word List

• Former approach: let students select academic vocabulary to study via the AWL

• New approach: – Instructor selection – Integration of vocabulary

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Vocabulary program aimsVocabulary program aims

• Select academic vocabulary most relevant to course material and students’ needs

• Develop tasks and practices to introduce, recycle and test vocabulary

• Integrate vocabulary activities among 3 courses

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Selection: the Web Vocabulary Profiler and Selection: the Web Vocabulary Profiler and Web Frequency IndexerWeb Frequency Indexer

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Error #1: the pre-testError #1: the pre-test

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Tasks to introduce vocabulary--1Tasks to introduce vocabulary--1• Use them in written work for AS. (Highlight the

words.)• Write them on cards.• Choose 3 or 4 and write a short story using

them.• Highlight the words when you see them in your

reading. • Try hard to remember their meaning.• Look up other forms of the word.• Memorize them for vocabulary quizzes.

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Tasks to introduce vocabulary--2Tasks to introduce vocabulary--2Choose 5 words and write vocabulary questions and

answers on a card, e.g. • What are 3 definitions of _____?• Give 3 word family members (and their parts of

speech) of _______.• Where might you see a __________? (e.g.

appendix)• True or False: If you (e.g. facilitate) a process, you

slow it down.• What are 3 collocates of ( e.g. ethnic)?• Looking at the list, choose 3 words and show how

they are related.

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Tasks to introduce vocabulary—3Tasks to introduce vocabulary—3

1.Try to learn words in groups. Which word or its family member might fit under the following IELTS topic headings? Look at the examples and add more words.

Education Science & Technology

Business Social issues

The arts

Provide instruction

Interpret the data

Selling consumer products

Ensuring access to technology for everyone

Conduct a symphony

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Tasks to introduce vocabulary—3Tasks to introduce vocabulary—3

2. Focus on collocation. Look up words on the concordancer, choosing “30 lines” and the University word list corpus. Click on Option 2, “Collocates table”, based on “frequency”.

3. Learn word family members. Using the concordancer, click Keywords “contains” to give you help. (Be careful, though!)

tense, tension, tensed, Tennessee (X)

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Tasks to introduce vocabulary—3Tasks to introduce vocabulary—34. Make notes on what you find.

Example:

Word Part/s of speech

Common collocates Word

family members

Access noun ~to, buy ~ , provide ~ accessed, accessible

verb ~mail, information;

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Tasks to introduce vocabulary--4Tasks to introduce vocabulary--4For each word:• Find the main academic definitions and the common

word family members and their parts of speech. • Use the word or a family member in a sentence related

to your IRP topic OR an academic reading topic that we have covered on this course. Be sure to use collocation correctly.

Example:Word Definition Family members

& parts of speechSentence

scope range, extent, capacity

NA Ten years ago no one could have predicted the scope of the HIV problem.

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Recycling vocabulary in classRecycling vocabulary in class

• Oral summary / recounting tasks

• Students teach students

• Teacher talk, questions

• GroupLex and quizzes

• Lab tasks

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Recycling vocabulary: a lab taskRecycling vocabulary: a lab task

1. Choose 5 words from the Weeks 4 & 5 list.

2. Paste in 10 concordance lines for each word. Can you draw any conclusions about collocates for these 5 words?

3. Make notes.

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Recycling vocabulary outside classRecycling vocabulary outside class

• Highlight vocabulary in written work

• Use the AWL Highlighter in research

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Recycling vocabulary: Recycling vocabulary: the IELTS Interview--1the IELTS Interview--1

• Question and answer

• The individual long turn: a topic related to the interviewee

• Discussion: expansion of the topic to invite comparison, speculation, explanation

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Recycling vocabulary: Recycling vocabulary: the IELTS Interview--2the IELTS Interview--2

TOPIC WORD CHUNK

The natural world (environment)

degrade environmental degradation

ecology ecological disaster/awareness

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Recycling vocabulary: Recycling vocabulary: the IELTS Interview--3the IELTS Interview--3

EXPLAIN significant a gift that had great significance for me was…

Coming to Canada was a significant decision because…

COMPARE gender In terms of gender in the workplace, I would say that in many ways women are catching up to men…

SPECULATE trend I think space tourism will be an important trend by 2050…

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Recycling vocabulary: Recycling vocabulary: the IELTS Interview--4the IELTS Interview--4

          

 

       Brainstorm some IELTS interview topics. Put the topic in the circle and add relevant vocabulary, in chunks where possible. Use the diagrams to practice the interview.

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Testing Vocabulary--1Testing Vocabulary--1Vocabulary Quiz 2

Answer 15 of the following questions. You will be assessed for spelling at all times!

1. Give three word family members and parts of speech of the word defect.

2. Fill in the blank.

They _______________ all their spare time to their children.

3. Write two different definitions of scenario.

4. True or False? Compute means to work something out.

5. What colour is carbon usually?

6. What are three collocations of ethnic?

7. Give three word family members and their parts of speech of the word reside.

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Testing Vocabulary--2Testing Vocabulary--21. Choose 10 vocabulary words from the list. Using correct word

form, spelling, collocation and appropriate definition, write a sentence using one of the IELTS topic headings OR your IRP topic. You are encouraged to use as many different topic headings as you can.

2. Each sentence will be worth two marks based on the criteria above. You may use your notes but not a dictionary. Refer to the examples below.

IELTS/IRP topic Word Sentence

IRP: Harm reduction

approach In Vancouver, a harm reduction approach attempts to help substance abusers.

IRP: Herbal medicine

supplement Many herbalists recommend the use of supplements because the daily diet is inadequate.

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Testing Vocabulary--3Testing Vocabulary--31A P

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Error repair: future plansError repair: future plans

• Pre-test

• Motivation

• Integration

Simplify: multiple choice?

Enforcement strategies

Plan more IELTS preparation tasks; link vocabulary more closely to readings

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