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TEACHING VOCABULARY

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 Objectives

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 After The Successful Completion Of The
Workshop The Participants Will Be To:
• Define vocabulary
• Discriminate between types of vocabulary
• Apply vocabulary enhancing techniques
• Develop vocabulary games
• Use appropriate vocabulary teaching
techniques in Classroom Teaching

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 Group Formation

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 Discuss within your group

May remembering
a list of words be
called vocabulary?
(5 min.)
 Write a short
paragraph (10
sentences) on
Pakistan Movement

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 Rewrite a short paragraph
(10 sentences) on the
same topic with out
looking at the previously
written

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 Now Think

• How many words you already know but did

not use ?
• How many words you didn’t know but you
guessed their meanings?
• How many words you could not
understand?

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 Types of vocabulary

Active/ productive Passive/ receptive

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 Vocabulary :
Some Issues

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• Teaching a word does not mean the students
learned it.
• We do not learn a word from one meeting.
Research tells us that it takes between 5-16
meetings (or more)
• There are 2 major stages in word learning. The
first stage is matching the word spelling and
pronunciation with its meaning. When this is
known, the student then work on the deeper
aspects of word knowledge
• Some words are more difficult to learn than
others.

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• It is easier to forget a word than remember
it. Initial word knowledge is very fragile and
memories of new words that are not met
again soon, are lost.
• Students cannot guess the meaning of an
unknown word from context if the
surrounding text is too difficult.
• We do not have enough time to teach
everything about a word so students have to
become independent word learners
• Words live with other words, not in isolation

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 Need to focus on :
• Boundaries between conceptual meaning: knowing not only
what lexis refers to, but also where the boundaries are that
separate it from words of related meaning (e.g. cup, mug,
bowl).
• Polysemy: distinguishing between the various meaning of a
single word form with several but closely related meanings
(head: of a person, of a pin, of an organisation).
• Homonymy: distinguishing between the various meaning of
a single word form which has several meanings which are
NOT closely related ( e.g. a file: used to put papers in or a
tool).
• Homophyny:understanding words that have the same
pronunciation but different spellings and meanings (e.g.
flour, flower).
• Synonymy: distinguishing between the different shades of
meaning that synonymous words have (e.g. extend,
increase, expand).
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 Vocabulary
Enhancing
Techniques

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 Affixation
• Pre fixes
• Suffixes
• Infixes

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 Association: semantic field

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 Making short words from a
longer word

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Make as many words from the
given words as you can

Decentralization
Universality
 Think for 3 minutes and tell:
How do you teach new words
to your students?

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 Vocabulary Teaching
Techniques

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 Cont…

1. Performing (action verbs)

2. Antonyms (adjective/ adverbs/ nouns)
3. Synonyms (adjective/ adverbs/ nouns)
4. Giving definitions/ explanations (concepts)
5. Pictures/ objects (concrete nouns)
6. Telling context (using it in a new sentence)
7. Translating (abstracts)

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 Performing

Disadvantages
Advantages
• Every teacher is not
• Interesting good performer
• Better comprehension • Generalizing of
• Direct interaction performance (Play)
• Easy to remember • Time taking
• Action verbs only

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 Antonyms/
synonyms

Advantages Disadvantages
• Vocabulary • Not every word has
enhancing & • Difficult to find
repetition • May become difficult
• Maximum use of than the real word
target language

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 Giving Definitions/ Explanations
Advantages Disadvantages
• Clarity • Time taking
• comprehension • May be ambiguous
• May be come more
difficult

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 Pictures/ objects / realia / drawing

Advantages Disadvantages
• Interesting • Expensive
• Motivational • May be hard to find
• Real concept • All are not artists
• Easy to remeber

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 Telling Context

Advantages Disadvantages
• Real sense • Needs preparation
• Information about • Time consuming
how to use • Error chances

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 Translation
Advantages Disadvantages
• Easy • Word to word problems
• No burden • Cultural differences
• Grammatical changes
• Less preparation
• ?
• ?

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 Vocabulary Games

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 A B C D F G H I J K L M N O P Q
1 F A L C O N I K N Z O I G O L F

2 A B B O T A B A D O I N G N F A

3 I X Y D C W A R D O S N W I L L

4 S A H I W A L A I L L E I O A L

5 A D K N I T L C V H A L N N H K

6 L C R G N J E H L U M P T O O L

7 A D W Q O U T I O M A K E A R N

8 B A H A W A L P U R B E R E E M

9 A G I H O C L A D A A O W U L O

10 D E C E M B E R E A D A L E I O

11 G S H A B I T B R E A R Y D O N

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 Pictures in Vocabulary

1.Running
2.Walking
3.Jumping
4.Kicking

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 Definition in stem
A person who receives and gives money in
a bank is called:

1. Broker
2. Accountant
3. Cashier.
4. 4. Manager

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 Providing Words In Context

• Ali: can you tell me at what time doctor’s...(1)....opens?

• Asif: it is open now. The (2)..... will help you.
• Ali: excuse me I just want to collect a (3)..........
• Asif: is it for some(4)....... for a headache?
• Ali: no, it’s for some cough(5).................
• Asif: here it is. This should soon (6)......... your bad cough.

• 1. Office surgery hospital clinic

• 2. Porter officer receptionist waiter
• 3. Prescription cure surgery recipe
• 4. Prevention liquid medicine solution
• 5. Mixture syrup drink compound
• 6. Prevent treat refresh cure

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 Sets (associated words)

Encircle the odd one out of each list

• 1. son father boy brother
• 2. single married happy engaged

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 Let’s Give it a Try

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 How will you teach these words
to your students?
Abacus forth castle
tumbler teem Saunter trot
vision philanthropist
conquest Ponder muse
anonymous cascade
Cataract torrent quadrangle
compute

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Problematic Areas in Vocabulary

• Idioms
• Proverbs
• Phrasal verbs

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 Congratulations
Now you are certified
Vocabulary Teachers

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Working in groups find out 15
words from any lesson and
tell how will you teach these
words to your students.

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 Thank You

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