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Usmanova Aruzhan

The structure of the seminar:

1.     Ask students to discuss the following questions:

What are the most common ways for Chinese students to learn vocabulary
regarding English?
Cultural values and ideas surrounding education mean that Chinese teaching
methods differ vastly to those used in the West and influence how a foreigner
should approach teaching Chinese students. As a foreign teacher, it’s important to
acknowledge this and take measures to ease students in and build their confidence.
There are some kind of aspects that we should know, firstly they are different. And
we should know the differences and ways how Chinese students can learn English
language. For example, English and Chinese they have differences in linguistics:

1. Speaking rhythm
2. Teaching techniques for speaking rhythm
3. Syllables and word stress
4. Pronunciation
5. Grammar
6. The importance of education and attitude towards teachers and homework
7. Styles of education and learning in the school, student behavior and motivation
8. Families and home life
9. Special interests and special abilities
10.The importance of “face”. After the those factors we can say that by those
factors we can teach them.

2. What are the most common ways for Chinese teachers to teach English
vocabulary, in Primary school, secondary school and university?

Vocabulary learning is an important and indispensable part of the English

language. A large vocabulary can help student’s process text in a more efficient
way. In fact, students’ vocabulary knowledge has been found to be highly
predictive of their performance on reading comprehension. English vocabulary
teaching and learning in junior high school plays a key role in students English
language development. Therefore, it is essential to lay a solid knowledge
foundation at this crucial stage for students’ more advanced levels of language
learning. The teaching of English has been standardized in Chinese primary
schools since 2001. In September 2001, English became a recognized subject in
the primary school curriculum from Grade 3 (Wang, 2005). The official English
Curriculum issued by Ministry of Education (MOE) in China served as important
complementary resources to investigate the current situation of vocabulary
teaching in Chinese junior high schools.
3.What are some of the vocabulary learning strategies you have used and
found (not) useful or effective?

1. People have different understanding of what a vocabulary item is, how an

item can be learned and consolidated, which items should be learned, and to
what extent the items should be learned and practiced. It is very important
for the students themselves to develop vocabulary awareness and vocabulary
building strategies.

Learning vocabulary is a basic constituent of learning a language. The more

words we know, the better we understand what we read and listen to. Our
vocabulary knowledge also reflects how well we can express ourselves in
speaking and writing. Because of the importance of vocabulary to the four
macro skills as well as to our study and life, much attention has been paid and
many studies have been conducted to investigate effective vocabulary learning
strategies. There are so many different ways to learn and to use. Every day we
should learn something new like new vocabulary, it is one of the effective way
to learn and use in everyday life.

What does knowing a word involve?

2.1   Denotative meaning
 
2.2   Connotative meaning
 
2.3   Collocations
 
2.4   Synonym, antonym and hyponym Antonyms are words with opposite
 
Receptive vocabulary
 Denotation is a translation of a sign to
its meaning, precisely to its literal
meaning, more or less like dictionaries
try to define it. Denotation is sometimes
contrasted to connotation, which
includes associated meanings.
 (of a word or expression) signifying or
suggestive of an associative or secondary
meaning in addition to the primary
meaning: His singing voice can best be
described by the connotative word
“velvet.”
 Collocation refers to a group of two or
more words that usually go together. A
good way to think of collocation is to
look at the word collocation. Co -
meaning together - location - meaning
place.
meanings. Synonyms are words with the
same or similar meaning. Homonyms are
words that are spelled and pronounced
the same, but have different meanings.
Productive vocabulary
It refers to words that one is able to Those words that one is not only able to
recognize and comprehend in reading or recognize but also able to use in speech
listening but unable to use automatically and writing are considered as one’s
in speaking or writing. productive\active vocabulary.
 

1. Ways of presenting vocabulary

TASKS AIMS EXAMPLES

a. visual or physical  To teach  Visual aids – While your
demonstration( pictures, vocabulary, visual demonstration itself is a
cards, real objects, video analyzing, critical visual aid, many how-to
clips , mimes and gestures thinking… speeches can benefit from
to show the meaning) videos, PowerPoint
slideshows, and handouts.
Consider what technology
or props you’ll have
available for your speech.
b. verbal context (e.g.  refers to the text or  the words that surround
grumble) speech surrounding the word "read" that help
an expression the reader determine the
(word, sentence, or tense of the word.
speech act).
c. synonyms or antonyms  Students learn to  Synonym Examples
(e.g. sad) compare and afraid, scared, frightened.
contrast, analyze, Automobile, car, vehicle.
learn vocabulary by Big, large, huge.
the comparison.
Antonym Examples
Add – Subtract

Above - Below

After - Before
Awake - Asleep

d. hyponyms (fruit: apple,  is in a type-of  pigeon, crow, eagle and

pear etc.) relationship with its seagull are all hyponyms
hypernym. of bird (their hypernym);
which, in turn, is a
hyponym of animal
e. Translate, definition and  to convey the  An example of a
exemplify (boxer: someone original tone and translation is "bueno"
who fights with his fists for intent of a message, meaning "good" in
sport) taking into account Spanish. An example of a
cultural and translation is telling a
regional differences parent the meaning behind
between source and their teen's facial
target languages expression.
f. word formation ( reader)  to let students use  An example is smog,
the words in context which comes from smoke
before they apply and fog, or brunch, which
the familiar comes from 'breakfast' and
principles of word 'lunch'.
formation. This
activity fosters the
understanding of
both the meaning
and the form of
words students are
required to use in
the exam and
prevents mindless
guessing and
relying on false
friends
g. chunks  Chunking refers to  Probably the most
an approach for common example of
making more chunking occurs in phone
efficient use of numbers. For example, a
short-term memory phone number sequence of
by grouping 4-7-1-1-3-2-4 would be
information. chunked into 471-1324.
Chunking breaks up
long strings of
information into
units or chunks. The
resulting chunks are
easier to commit to
memory than a
longer uninterrupted
string of
information.
h. the context in real life  learning that is  the words that surround
designed so that the word "read" that help
students can carry the reader determine the
out activities and tense of the word.
solve problems in a
way that reflects the
nature of such tasks
in the real world.