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Teaching Vocabulary to Young Learners (Classroom Techniques and Activities…
Teaching Vocabulary to Young Learners
What is Vocabulary?
Collection of Words
add words to receptive and expressive vocabularies
Receptive vocabulary (how?)
deliberate voc --> formal instruction
teach students meanings of words
ways to uncover the meaning of a word
incidental voc --> acquisition --> informal instruction
non-rule oriented
"by the way" approach
lexical fields
Background to the Teacher of Vocabulary
use both formal and informal vocabulary instruction that engages students' cognitive skills
analyze which of the 2 words would be a better choice in a sentence
opportunities for learners to use words
Useful words
high frequency
words that are of interest and intriguing
meaningful and useful
integrated into teaching the four skills
Learners need to acquire vocabulary leanring strategies in order to discover the meaning of new words
TPR
Word-saavy
Principles for Teaching Vocabulary
Indirect and Direct Teaching
Indirect Instruction
helping children learn appropriate strategies so they can figure out the meaning of words on their own
Direct Instruction
teaching words and their meanings
Benefits in Pre-teaching vocabulary items
learners are better able to comprehend the activity
teaching vocabulary words in advance makes it more likely that students wil actually acquire the target vocabulary words
Context Clues
strategy that learners can use when they encounter unfamiliar words
teach that context clues do not always help them to understand the meaning
Exposure to new vocabulary items
make educational gains when learners are exposed to vocabulary items repeatedly in rich contexts
benefit when there is multi-sensory vocabulary input
Deep- Processing
working with information at a high cognitive and/or personal level
retrieve
prior to knowledge
<associate>
peronalization (application)
connections with prior knoweldge and new words ( learners' personal lives)
Dictionary/Pictionary
Vocabulary Notebooks
provide opportunities to develope a variety of vocabulary acquistion strategies
help students have more control over their learning
Classroom Techniques and Activities
Personalization
Word for the Day
Categories
Scavenger Hunt
What's Missing?
Mystery Words
Concentration
Vocabulary Basket