How to Teach VocabularyHow to Teach Vocabulary(click to get the pdf file)(click to get the pdf file)
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Main menuMain menu• Teaching Tips:
– Step One: presenting new words – Step Two: helping students rememb
er new words – Step Three: making sure students m
ake the new words their own • Online resources
Step One: Step One: presenting new wordspresenting new words
Using visual images
Using gestures and actions
Showing lexicial relations
Words in context
Guessing/predicting
Other techniques
using visual imagesusing visual images
• realia
• pictures
• masking
• drawing
• scales
using gestures and actionsusing gestures and actions
• mime
• gesture
• facial expression
• action
showing lexical relationsshowing lexical relations
• synonyms• antonyms• collocation• prefixes and suffixes
words in contextwords in context
• dialogues
• role play
• drama
• stories
• songs
• rhymes & poems
• videos
guessing / predictingguessing / predicting
• Example 1
• Example 2
Other techniquesOther techniques
• Using a dictionary
• Explaining
• Describing
• Defining the context
• Translating
Step Two: Step Two: helping students helping students
remember new wordsremember new words
Using review games
Using memorizing games & activities
Learning with friends
usinge memorizing usinge memorizing games and activitiesgames and activities
• giving directions• picture dictation• matching words• labeling words• searching words• sequencing words• guessing words• eliminating words• classifying words
Review GamesReview Games• wordsearch games • picture labeling • crosswords • Bingo• dominoes • puzzles• charts or survey for their peers• Example 1 • Example 2
Socio-affectively,Socio-affectively, students can 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
Step Three: Step Three: making sure students making sure students
make the new words their ownmake the new words their own
Vocabulary record system
Personalizing the new words
Vocabulary record system-1Vocabulary 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 -2Vocabulary 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 wordspersonalize 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 sto
rybooks, the Internet, the newspapers, etc., and noticing how they are used.
Meta-cognitively, Meta-cognitively, learners learn how tolearners 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 ResourcesOnline Resources• Teaching Vocabulary:Two Dozen
Tips and Techniques• English Vocabulary Word Lists
with Games, Puzzles and Quizzes• LearnEnglishKids• An authoring tool: HOT POTATO
– Example 1– Example 2
• A Collocation Tool: iWiLL
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