How to Teach Vocabulary
Presented By:
Mohammad Sadegh Ahmad Yazdi
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•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
Step One: presenting new words
Using visual images
Using gestures and actions
Showing lexicial relations
Words in context
Guessing/predicting
Other techniques
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
Other techniques
• Using a dictionary
• Explaining
• Describing
• Defining the context
• Translating
Step Two: helping students
remember new words
Using review games
Using memorizing games & activities
Learning with friends
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
Step Three: making sure students
make the new words their own
Vocabulary record system
Personalizing the new words
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
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