The document discusses strategies for helping students broaden their vocabulary. It recommends that teachers (1) help students learn how to appropriately use new words in a variety of oral and written situations, (2) consider factors like word meanings, pronunciation, and grammar when teaching vocabulary, and (3) use techniques like images, sounds, mental linkages and actions to engage different learning styles and help students remember new words.

1. by Camila Cuevas A.

2.  Due to their limited productive use of a wide
range of vocabulary, students need to:
Broaden their vocabulary
In order to
express
themselves
Learn how to use words more clearly
appropiately and
appropriately
in a wide range
Take into account factors such as of situations
oral/written use of the language;
degree of formality, style, etc.

3.  Aspects of lexis that need to be taken into
account:
Boundaries between
Polysemy Homonymy
conceptual meaning
Homophony Synonymy Affective meaning
Style, register and
Translation Chunks of language
dialect
Grammar of
Pronunciation
vocabulary

4. Short-term memory is not
however Our long-term memory
effective if the number of
can hold any amount of
chunks of information
information
exceedes seven.
We should not aim at teaching
more than this number

5. Applying images
and sounds
If we diagnose learning Creating mental
style preferences linkages
(visual, aural, kinesthet
ic and tactile) we can
recommend: Employing action
Reviewing well, in
a structured way

6. Meaningful tasks
Require learners to
Rely on students’
analyse and process
experiences and reality
language more deeply
Other methods of organising items: using
topic and categories; digrams and word trees.

7. Guided
discovery
Contextual
guesswork
Discovering
Using
meaning
dictionaries
To foster learner independence
so that learners will be able to
deal with new lexis and expand
their vocabulary

8. It’s essential to make
students aware of them!
Multi-word
Grammar prefabricated Vocabulary
chunks
Fixed and
Collocations semi-fixed Idioms
expressions
Succesful communication
is more important than
the production os
accurate sentences.

9. Using authentic
Choice of material material to expose
students
Noticing collocations To improve their
and dealing with collocational
meaning competence
To motivate them to
Group work
ask others to explain
To use the language
Choice of task they are learning in a
reaslistic context