1. How to Teach Vocabulary (click to get the pdf file)
Alice Chiu
English Teacher

2. Main menu Teaching Tips: Online resources
Step One: presenting new words
Step Two: helping students remember new words
Step Three: making sure students make the new words their own
Online resources

3. Step One: presenting new words
Using visual images
Other techniques
Using gestures and actions
Step One: presenting new words
Words in context
Guessing/predicting
Showing lexicial relations

4. using visual images
realia
pictures
masking
drawing
scales

5. using gestures and actions
mime
gesture
facial expression
action

6. showing lexical relations
synonyms
antonyms
collocation
prefixes and suffixes

7. words in context dialogues role play drama stories songs
rhymes & poems
videos

8. guessing / predicting
Example 1
Example 2

9. Other techniques Using a dictionary Explaining Describing
Defining the context
Translating

10. Step Two: helping students remember new words
Using memorizing games & activities
Step Two: helping students remember new words
Using review games
Learning with friends

11. usinge memorizing games and activities
giving directions
picture dictation
matching words
labeling words
searching words
sequencing words
guessing words
eliminating words
classifying words

12. Review Games wordsearch games picture labeling crosswords Bingo
dominoes
puzzles
charts or survey for their peers
Example 1
Example 2

13. Socio-affectively, students can
practice words with a classmate or in a group
teach a word to a member of the family or peer
make and play word game with friends
peer test

14. Step Three: making sure students make the new words their own
Vocabulary record system
Step Three: making sure students make the new words their own
Personalizing the new words

15. Vocabulary record system-1
Vocabulary books
in an alphabetical order
by topic or situation
by grammatical groups
by color sets
by story features

16. Vocabulary record system -2
personal dictionary (word notebooks)
marking word stress
adding pictures
putting an L1 translation
putting the word into context
adding a synonym
mapping a word family
Example

17. personalize the new words
Keeping a learning log (blogs)
Keeping a diary (blogs)
Creative writing by using newly-learned words or phrases
Looking for recently learned words in storybooks, the Internet, the newspapers, etc., and noticing how they are used.

18. Meta-cognitively, learners learn how to
self-test
look for patterns in words
plan and organize a vocabulary record keeping system
Learn words in their preferred ways
reflect on learning and reviewing regularly
monitor vocabulary learning

19. Online Resources Teaching Vocabulary: Two Dozen Tips and Techniques
English Vocabulary Word Lists with Games, Puzzles and Quizzes
LearnEnglishKids
An authoring tool: HOT POTATO
Example 1
Example 2
A Collocation Tool: iWiLL

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