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Developing Student Vocabulary : Fun Ways to Learn Words

Developing Student Vocabulary : Fun Ways to Learn Words. Katie Bain www.elfellowkbain.wordpress.com k tbain53@gmail.com. Objective. Participants will learn , interact with , and apply new ways of learning and teaching English vocabulary . . How do you teach vocabulary ? .

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Developing Student Vocabulary : Fun Ways to Learn Words

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  1. DevelopingStudentVocabulary:FunWaystoLearnWords KatieBain www.elfellowkbain.wordpress.com ktbain53@gmail.com

  2. Objective Participantswilllearn, interactwith, and apply new ways of learning and teachingEnglishvocabulary.

  3. How do youteachvocabulary?

  4. What are thechallengesforteachingvocabulary?

  5. Challenge 1: The largenumber of words • The number of wordsthatstudentsneedtoknow. • 2,000 – 3,000 wordfamiliestounderstandspokencommunication • 8,000 – 9,000 wordfamiliesforreadingauthentictexts! • 4,500 – 5,000 wordfamiliesfora C2 Level of proficiency! Example of Word Family: • stimulate • stimulated • stimulates • stimulation • Stimulative (Schmidtt, 2008)

  6. Challenge 2:Depth of KnowledgeNeeded • Studentsmustknow a lotabout a word in ordertounderstanditwell and use itcorrectly. • What is involved in knowing a word? • Form • Meaning • Use (Schmidtt, 2008)

  7. Form – Meaning – Use suburbs Form • Spelling • Pronunciation (stressed syllables) • Word parts (roots, prefixes, suffixes) Meaning • definition, part of speech, connotation Use • How do you use it in a sentence? • What other words usually come near this word in sentences (collocation)? InstructedSecondLanguageVocabularyLearningSchmittNorbert.pdf

  8. FiveTypes of VocabularyLearning • Single Words • Set Phrases • Variable Phrases • PhrasalVerbs • IdiomaticExpressions (Folse, 2008)

  9. Single Words Single wordsexpressone single concept. room living room bedroom (Folse, 2008)

  10. Set Phrases Set phrasesconsist of more thanoneword and cannotbechanged at all. Example: “Ontheotherhand” NOT “Ontheotherhands” “Ontheotherfingers” (Folse, 2008)

  11. Variable Phrases In Variable Phrases, most of thephrasestaysthesame, butsomepartsmaychange. Examples: “It has come toourattention.” “It has come tomyattention.” (Folse, 2008)

  12. PhrasalVerbs PhrasalVerb = verb + particle put up takedown come on make up goaway getover (Folse, 2008)

  13. Idioms(IdiomaticExpressions) In anidiom, themeaning of thewholephraseisdifferentthanthemeaning of the individual words Example: “Wholetthecatout of the bag?” means “Whotoldthesecret?” (Folse, 2008)

  14. MultipleMeanings(Polysemy) • Hammer (nounorverb?) • Table • furniture • set of numbers • action of stoppingconversation • description (tablecloth) (Folse, 2008)

  15. Connotation (Folse, 2008)

  16. Part of Speech noun – amazement verb – toamaze adjective – amazing adverb - amazingly (Folse, 2008)

  17. Frequency usual common • “Smith” is a commonlastname. discard throwaway * I’mgoingtodiscard my oldbooks. (Folse, 2008)

  18. Collocation co = together together + location Collocation has to do with a wordorphrasethatnaturallyorfrequentlyoccursnearanotherword in context. • squander….money/resources • commit… murder, suicide, fraud, grandlarceny (Folse, 2008)

  19. How do we select words to teach? • What are my students’ ability levels? • What words are most frequently used? • Which words are necessary for communication? • Which words are relevant to my students’ contexts or lives? • What are the demands of the class or course? • What are my students’ language goals and/or needs?

  20. Tools to Help You Determine Which Vocabulary Words to Teach • West General Service List • Academic Word Lists • Lextutor Vocabulary Profiler • Readability Score

  21. Lextutor Key • Blue – K1 – Top 1 – 1,000 most-frequently used words in English • Green – K2 – Top 1001 – 2,000 most-frequently used words in English • Yellow – Academic Word List • Red - Offlist

  22. Article

  23. K-2 Level Words advice, attended, borders, delivery, disappointed, discussions, firm, flood, government, hospital, inside, inside, international, international, lessons, programs, relief, risked, solution

  24. Academic Words access, achieve, affected, aid aidaidaidaid, approaching, assembly, assessment, assistance, citing, civil, commissioner commissioner, commitment, comprehensive, conference conference, conflict conflictconflictconflict, consult, convene, debate, economic, established, eventually, finance, financial, impact, institutions, intervention, involvement, major, released, remove, response, security, shift shift, significance, significantly, vision

  25. Readability Score

  26. Audio/Text

  27. K-2 Words asleep brain brainbrainbrainbrainbrainbrainbrainbrainbrainbrainbrainbrainbrain brains brainsbrainsbrainsbrainsbrains connected connections connections cure drum electrical electricalelectrical electricity electricity formal frequency frequency fun health information information instrument instrumentinstrumentinstrumentinstrumentinstrumentinstrumentinstrumentinstrumentinstrument lessons lessonslessons lock locking lot noisy noisy program programs purple pushing quick restaurant sadder screen screenscreen smoke sports urges wires worse

  28. Academic Words administrators adults affects affects analogy areas automatically benefits challenging classical classical communication communication complex computer computercomputercomputercomputer confer devices domain economic elements elements energy function fundamental fundamental identifying inherently instance instruction investigates major major minor participated passively physically physically processed processed research researchers researchers respond respond responded responding response responses responses task task volunteer volunteers volunteersvolunteersvolunteersvolunteers

  29. Readability Score

  30. So what do we do? • Successfulvocabularyactivitieshelpstudentsto … • Focusonthevocabulary • Experiencethewordsmany times • Developgoodlearningstrategies (Folse, 2008)

  31. Goal 1: FocusontheVocabulary • How do wemakestudents NOTICE words? • writethemontheboard • keep a section of theboardor chart paperforvocabulary • wordwalls • Studentsmarkkeyvocabulary (Folse, 2008)

  32. Goal #2: Experiencethe Word Many Times • Studentshavetosee, hear, and use a wordmultiple times tounderstand and knowitwell. • matching • writing • spelling • naming/identifying • writingit in a sentence (Folse, 2008)

  33. Goal #3: DevelopSuccessfulVocabularyLearningStrategies • Teachers show studentsmanydifferentwaystoacquire and memorizevocabulary. • Studentseventually pick and choosewhatworksbestforthem. (Folse, 2008)

  34. Activities and Ideas • Keep a runninglist of words • VocabularyCards • Ranking VocabularyItems • Scrambledvocabularyenvelopes • Word Sorts (Lexical Sets) • Dialogues • What’smissing • Erase • Smack • Listen and Draw • Taboo • CollocationsMatching • Word Comparisons (Folse, 2008) (Schindler, 2006)

  35. #1: Keep a RunningList of Words (Folse, 2008) (Schindler, 2006)

  36. #2: VocabularyCards (Folse, 2008) (Schindler, 2006)

  37. #3: Ranking VocabularyItems (Folse, 2008) (Schindler, 2006)

  38. #4: ScrambledVocabularyEnvelopes (Folse, 2008) (Schindler, 2006)

  39. #5: Word Sorts(Lexical Sets) (Folse, 2008) (Schindler, 2006)

  40. #6: Dialogues (Folse, 2008) (Schindler, 2006)

  41. #7: What’sMissing? (Folse, 2008) (Schindler, 2006)

  42. #8: Erase! (Folse, 2008) (Schindler, 2006)

  43. #9: Smack! (Folse, 2008) (Schindler, 2006)

  44. #10: Listen and Draw (Folse, 2008) (Schindler, 2006)

  45. # 11: Taboo

  46. #12: Collocations Matching

  47. #13: Comparing Words • Positive and Negative Connotation Scale

  48. #13: Comparing Words • Synonyms and antonyms • Discuss how certain words have different “hidden meanings” (Use examples from Spanish!). • He’s frugal. • He’s cheap. • When you encounter words in various different readings or contexts, make note of it! Make connections between readings and discuss how words were used in a previous reading compared to a current reading.

  49. What are your ideas?

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