How to Yustus Tefi,SS.//teach vocabulary to young learners
1. How to Teach Vocabulary
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2. •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
3. Step One:
presenting new words
Using visual images
Using gestures
and actions
Showing lexicial relations
Words in context
Guessing/predicting
Other techniques
10. usinge memorizing
games and activities
• giving directions
• picture dictation
• labeling words
• searching words
• sequencing words
• guessing words
• eliminating words
• classifying words
• Matching words
11. Review Games
• Word search games
• picture labeling
• Bingo
• dominoes
• puzzles
• charts or survey for their peers
• crosswords
12. 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
13. Step Three:
making sure students
make the new words their own
Vocabulary record system
Personalizing the new words
14. Vocabulary record system-1
• Vocabulary books
– in an alphabetical order
– by topic or situation
– by grammatical groups
– by color sets
– by story features
15. 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
16. 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.
17. 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
18. Online Resources
• Teaching Vocabulary:
Two Dozen Tips and Techniques
• English Vocabulary Word Lists
with Games, Puzzles and Quizzes
• LearnEnglishKids