Learning Contextualized Vocabulary with Internet Tools
Gaby Rinkerman&
Laurie MoodyPassaic County Community College
Vocabulary Acquisition Research
• Dictionary Use & Guessing from Context• Incidental Learning & Explicit Instruction • Visual Images & Other Connections• Words & Collocations • Recycling Vocabulary• Testing: Contextualized Meaning vs.
Dictionary Definition
Reading Unabridged Novels
Online Dictionaries for Vocabulary Acquisition
http://blachan.com/shahi/ http://images.google.com/
http://www.learnersdictionary.com/ http://www.wordreference.com/
How many words do you know in YOUR language?
How many of those words did you look up in your DICTIONARY?
Strategies for: Noticing
Guessing from Context
Guessing Meaning From Context
Make the Movie in Your Mind
• Preview Setting: Time and PlaceImagesStories (King Arthur)
• Imagine the CharactersDrawings
Vocabulary Learning Journals I
Vocabulary Learning Journals II
• Out of Class, Students Select 5 vocabulary items from reading.
Write sentence where word(s) found.• In Class, Students
Write sentences on the board.• In Class, Teacher
Signals clues to meaning (context & word). Discusses meaning in context of story.
Maintains list of sentences.
Practice
http://www.quia.com/pop/154955.html
Partners practice in class.Individual practice at home.
Testing I
Testing II
Testing III
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