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TECHNIQUES FOR

TEACHING VOCABULARY(VISUAL TECHNIQUE)

TerenceKomathy

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These include flashcards, photographs, blackboard

drawings, wallcharts and realia (i.e. objects themselves).

They extensively used for conveying meaning and

particularly useful for teaching concrete items of

vocabulary such as food or furniture, and certain areas

of vocabulary such as places, professions, descriptions

of people, actions and activities (such as sport and verbs

of movement).

Easily to practice activities involving student interaction.

For example:A set of pictures illustrating sporting activities could

be used as means of presenting items such as skiing,

sailing, climbing, etc.

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Visual technique for the presentation of new lexical

items pertain to visual memory, which is considered

helpful especially with vocabulary retention.

Learners can remember the presented material farmore effectively if it has been presented by means of

visual aids.

They help students associate presented material in a

meaningful way.

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Teachers can benefit from the use of:

flashcards,

photographs and pictures, blackboard drawings

word pictures

mime and gesture

action

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Picture Flashcards

David A Hill (1990) classified pictures according to their size

into three key categories:

Large (20x30 cm): useful for whole-class work Medium (10x15 cm): useful for group-work

Small (5x5 cm): useful for games and other group-work

activities (Hill 1990: 5)

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Big Picture Flashcards

Big picture flashcards are very helpful tools in presenting

and drilling forms of new words, since they draw

learners attention and make these often boring activities

more enjoyable.

At the same time flashcards (as well as other forms of

pictures and visual aids in general) enable students to

link the meaning of the words with real-world images

immediately.When using flashcards in presentation, it is easy to

involve learners actively and to combine the presentation

with controlled practice.

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The presentation of vocabulary with flashcards can be

done in lots of various ways, for example in telling a storyor just simply based on a set of vocabulary for a

particular topic.

Big flashcards are suitable for vocabulary practice and

testing.To draw students attention, it is advisable to reveal

pictures in an interesting way.

Wright and Haleem (1996) presented several activities

that might be modified for this purpose, such as Flashing

picture, where the teacher just flashes the cards quickly

and students guess or describe what they saw.

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Word Flashcards

Help mainly in teaching the spelling of newly learnt

words.

Being used in a similar way as picture flashcards, they canenrich the lesson. On top of that, those two can be

indeed combined and applied together, e.g. in a

matching or labeling activity.

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Drawing On The Board

Wright and Haleem (1996: 8) presented another very inspiring

idea of using drawing on the board:

They suggest using it in combination with flashcards or

pictures from magazines.

For example:

The teacher draws a scene and supplements it with

individual pictures of people, animals or things.

A house could be drawn and pictures of furniture could be

placed inside by the. This can be used for the presentation

or practice of names of rooms or furniture, prepositions of

place, home activities, together with the phrase there

is/are.

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Mime and Gesture

These are often used to supplement other ways of

conveying meaning.

When teaching an item such as to swerve, a teacher

might build a situation to illustrate it, making use of the

blackboard and gesture to reinforce the concept.

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