romania wk 1 vocabulary

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Teaching Vocabulary

to

Very Young Learners

Vanessa Reis Esteves

[email protected]


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Why is teaching vocabulary so important?

words

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Chunks

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Collocation


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Characteristics of Young Learners

Shortattentionspan

Naturallearners

Individualattention

Energeticand active The silentperiod Dependent

PlayfulCreative andimaginative


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What do children need to learn?

Positive classroomenvironment

Role model andlearning context

Scaffolding and

regular experiencesof success

Open learning gates

Learn


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A Sense of Security

! For anyone of whatever age, learning a new language is a

traumatic experience. ! Small children who have spent

their time among loved and trusted people, need some

time to adjust to the school environment. If thestrangeness of a new school and unknown faces is

compounded by having someone jabbering at them in a

foreign language, the experience must be terrifying.! Vanessa Reilly & Sheila M. Ward, Very Young Learners: 1997: 4


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What do children need to learn?


Role model andlearning context

Scaffolding and

regular experiencesof success

Open learning gates

Learn


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Strategies for Teaching Vocabulary to YoungLearners

Learningvocabulary

Puppet

Songs/chants

Classroomlanguage

GamesPosters Flashcards/mini-

flashcards

Stories

Arts andcrafts

Tasks/worksheets


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TPR (Total Physical Response)

!

Pre-school children learn through direct experience via

the five senses, and do not yet understand abstract

concepts. ! The younger the children are, the more

important TPR is .

! Vanessa Reilly & Sheila M. Ward, Very Young Learners: 1997: 9


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RevisePracticePresent


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Puppets

Cookie andFriends First Friends

Playtime


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! Dolls and Puppets which “only understand English” are

another effective way of encouraging children to speak in

English, and can help to reduce inhibitions.

! Vanessa Reilly & Sheila M. Ward, Very Young Learners: 1997: 6


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Activities for Puppets

Demonstrator

-show the flashcards

-Cookie says

Classroommanagement:

-Noise-Choosing volunteers


-comforter

Pronunciation model

-echo friend

Circle Time

-Tell Cookie the word- Say hi/ wake Cookie

up

Guess what Cookie isthinking!


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Songs and chants

PracticeRecycleVocab.

PracticePronunciation

Developmemory

skills

Establishroutines

Fun (not just a simplerepetition of activities

from previous lessons!)


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Song with actions

Point to Jig

Point to Pat.

Stand up.

Sit down.

Clap, clap, clap.

Point to Jig

Point to Pat.

Stand up.

Sit down.

Clap, clap, clap.


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Classroom Language

To sayhello/

goodbye

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Circle Time: Hello, Cookie, How areyou today?

• Fine thank you, and you?

Get yourmaterial

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Everyone.

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Listen to me.

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You need colours.

• 123

To giveInstructions

• Stand upeveryone, Tra-la-la-la


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Games

Guessinggame

Addinggame

Hello game Fly squattergame

Findsomething!


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Posters


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Use posters to!

! Create the context

! Practice or Revise vocabulary


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Flashcards/Mini-Flashcards

Yes/No boardGame

Group Game:

Stand up/Sit

down

Kim’s game

Chinese

Whispers

Swat that

card


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Arts and Crafts


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Tasks and Worksheets

! Encouraging memorization strategies is an important way

to practice new vocabulary. However, it is equally

important that learners have the chance to use new

language (both vocabulary and grammar) in meaning-

focused output in situations where they have control over

the choice of the language.

! Annamaria Pinter, Teaching Young Language Learners: 2009: 85


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Robust and Personal approach to vocabulary


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General development of the learner


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Awareness of words


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Teaching Vocabularyto

Very Young Learners

Vanessa Reis Esteves

[email protected]

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