“Words are trouble, words are subtle Words of anger, words of hate Words over here, words out there In the air and everywhere” Tom Tom Club – Wordy Rappinghood
Getting students to learn new words can be difficult. Teachers might have memories of seemingly endless rote memorisation of words at school, but also appreciate that learning vocabulary is essential to learning language. In ‘The Big questions of ELT’ Scott Thornbury writes
“All in all, this suggests that the learner needs to assemble as big a lexicon as possible–even if this means putting other areas of language learning, such as the learning of grammar, ‘on hold’.”
On Sunday 21st of June at 8 PM KST #KELTchat will be discussing teaching students words. Questions discussed might include:
- What does the teaching of new words look like in your classroom?
- What have you found effective when teaching vocabulary?
- What have you found ineffective?
- What activities can teachers use to teach vocabulary in an engaging way?
- How can you encourage students to increase their vocabulary outside of class?
- What does it mean for students to learn or know a word?
- What do you think is the role of L1 while teaching vocab?
Further reading
Misconceptions regarding learning/teaching
Even further information
(Kindly shared by @daylemajor)
Dealing with Vocabulary in Class. Vocabulary and Intensive Reading
–a talk by Paul Nation.
Best Practice in Vocabulary Learning and Teaching
by Paul Nation
#KELTChat 