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HELPING STUDENTS LEARN VOCABULARY

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  • What was the last vocabulary set that you taught?
  • How did you teach it?
  • Did students record vocabulary?
  • How did you recycle it?

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  • Students need to encounter a word 10-16 times before they”learn” it.

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  • Remember receptive vocabulary versus productive vocabulary.

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Steps for “learning” a word

  • 1) Notice the word with help.
  • 2)Recognise the word with help.
  • 3)Recognise on their own.

4) Recognise and produce.

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  • How can we teach vocabulary to our students?

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  • Mix it up for different types of learner.

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  • Use flashcards/ illustrations/real objects.

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  • Teach in CONTEXT (not random lists)
  • Make it memorable.
  • Recycle.

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Recording vocabulary

  • Should we get our students to record vocabulary?

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  • How should students record vocabulary?
  • (Think about different levels)

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  • Use notebooks. Special section?
  • Record as a vocabulary set.
  • Record definition/example sentence.
  • Record grammar of word (eg noun,adjective etc)
  • Record pronunciation.(phonetics, word stress)
  • Record collocations. (eg. Book a room)

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Activities to recycle vocabulary

  • Students need constant revision of vocabulary to remember words.

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  • What activities do you use with your students?
  • Think of different levels/adults/children/company classes.

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  • Bingo
  • Memory (Kim’s game)

A-Z snake

  • Pelmanism
  • Fill in the gap (banana)
  • Odd word out
  • Mime games

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  • 20 questions
  • Pictionary
  • Back to the board game
  • Stop the bus
  • I went to the shops…
  • Word thieves (Text-ss steal word related to topic as you read)

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  • Triptico games ( see examples)
  • Hangman
  • Run and write, Run and draw, run and circle.
  • Chinese whispers
  • Display posters
  • Post it game
  • Mini vocab tests

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  • Connect 4
  • Make a crossword on the board
  • Taboo
  • Crosswords
  • Word soups

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