3. PROBLEMS/CHALLENGES:
Get students to learn vocabulary beyond memorisation
Decide which words are important
Have a number of ideas available to try
Provide transparent individual self-study acitivities
Motivate students
Make learning vocabulary a fun activity
4. VOCABULARY CANNOT BE
TAUGHT
It can be presented, explained,
Included in all kinds of activities,
And experienced in all manner of
associations
But ultimately it is learned by the
individual.
Wilga Rivers
5. STUDENTS LEARN NEW WORDS
relevant
familiar topic
the native language and the second
language
a number of contacts (6x ?, 7x?, 16x?)
6. age
language level
class size
learning styles
motivation
How?
9. TEACHING WORDS IN 6 STEPS
1. Teacher explains the word
2. Students restate or explain
3. Students create a non-linguistic representative
4. Students engage in activities to deepen
knowledge (compare, ...)
5. Discuss the word
6. Periodically play games to review
Robert Marzano
taken from Edutopia, Jan16, 2014
10. IF YOU DON’T USE IT, YOU
LOSE IT.
24/48/7/14
Anne Hernandez
11. REVIEW AND PRACTICE:
Setting up a weekly vocabulary competition
Voting for the most useful words
Keeping track of word lists
What is your favourite way of reviewing vocabulary?
17. CHALLENGE? -QUIZICON
How many of the 100 most common words in the
English language you can guess in 5 min?
list compiled using the Oxford English Corpus,
used by the makers of the Oxford English
Dictionary, which contains over 2 billion words of
written English
http://quizicon.com/100-Most-Common-English-
Words-Quiz.html
18. - EVERYWHERE
http://www.english-attack.com/
Ideas:
Ask students to prepare for a lesson
with Video Booster or Photo Vocab
• Use it in the classroom
• Video Booster, Photo Vocab or a
Practice Game for homework
Where
19. ENGLISH ATTACK –FREE VERSION
Vocab Quickview
1. The video
2. Survival Test
3. Listening Lab
4. Quiz Challenge
5. Vocab Academy
6. Grammar Jungle
Final Score + Practice
games
Video Booster
20. • Vocabulary
sets
• A card =
pronunciation
definition
sample
sentence
• Practice
games:
-Speed pix
-Word rescue
-Swapmania
31. WORD WALLS - ONLINE
http://padlet.com/wall/kk2tc8bvh6
a similar tool: http://en.linoit.com/ (online sticky sharing)
32. WORD WALLS IN THE CLASSROOM
shapes, colours to draw attention
mind maps, word clouds, ...
Mrs Dunkerley’s hive: Word Wall Activities
http://www.teachingfirst.net/wordwallact.htm
39. STORYTELLING AND POETRY CAN
HELP:
exaggerated reading
repetition and memorization
performance (role-play, staging a play) -fun
motivation for repeated listening
incidental vs. intentional learning
process vs. product learning
42. TEENAGERS AND OLDER STUDENTS:
Six Word Stories
http://www.sixwordstories.net/
-inspired by Ernest Hemingway’s famous
challenge.
- stories by notable writers, reader submissions
- cattegories
- create and share (Facebook, Twitter)
