Learning Contextualized Vocabulary with Internet Tools Gaby Rinkerman & Laurie Moody Passaic 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

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/

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

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 Place Images Stories (King Arthur) Imagine the Characters Drawings

Preview Setting: Time and Place

Images

Stories (King Arthur)

Imagine the Characters

Drawings

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.

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.

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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